“It's my duty to inform you that the larceny of an equine is a capital offense punishable by death, but you can rest assured that in this court, a horse thief always gets a fair trial before he's hung.”

Walter Brennan - Judge Roy Bean

“It ain't the law!”

George Clooney - Everett

“- Sheriff Burnett: Tell me something, old-timer. Are we within the jurisdiction of Snow Hill County?
- Coachman: Yep. You can arrest or hang anyone you want.”
Frank Wolff - Sheriff Gideon Burnett
Benito Pacifico - Coachman

“By harboring an enemy of the Reich, you have qualified to be shot without trial. That is the law. I know because I made that law. If I choose, I can also break it.”

Laird Cregar - Herr Funk

“A man just naturally can't take the law into his own hands and hang people without hurting everybody in the world, 'cause then he's just not breaking one law but all laws.”

Henry Fonda - Gil Carter