Cimarron Strip (TV Series)

The Battleground (1967)

R.G. Armstrong: William Payne

Quotes 

• [Jim cocks his rifle] 

  William Payne : That's an ugly sound, Marshal.

  Marshal Jim Crown : It always has been.

  William Payne : But you don't even know me.

  Marshal Jim Crown : William Payne, the farmer's messiah.

  William Payne : Now you're beginning to understand.

  Marshal Jim Crown : Had a heel shot off. They tell the story that you can't back up.

  William Payne : That's it.

  Marshal Jim Crown : Took a chestful of lead goin' against a Winchester armed with principle.

  William Payne : That's a way to put it.

  Marshal Jim Crown : Guts and gall!

  William Payne : Now you know me.

• William Payne : Ten million acres across that river - the Cherokee Outlet, the last free homestead land left in America. Ten years we fought to open it, for our plows, for our homes. We've taken abuse, we've suffered abuse while the cattlemen squandered that land - land they don't even own, except by government lease. And now we're going to have it. We've done it. We've got a bill in Congress that's going to decide once and for all who owns it - cattlemen or us. They're votin' on that bill in Washington now and I'm not about to jeopardize it by violence and you know it.

  Marshal Jim Crown : Now you know me.