- Eddy Pierce: Ruth can handle a gun; there's no need for me to stay here and watch after 'em.
- Jim Hardie: Well, I just think they'd feel safer is someone was here with 'em.
- Eddy Pierce: Oh, you think I'd be in your way, is that it? Well, let me tell you somethin' - I can do more with one arm then most men can do with two!
- Jim Hardie: You were in the army, Pierce. Since when is it a disgrace to stand guard?
- Marshal Blake: Well, we got ourselves a real humdinger, friend. These two in here are crazy with fear and that killer outside is crazy with hate. That temperature is down around zero, probably goin' lower - that can be a killer, too.