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Quotes
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Link Appleyard : Mr. Peabody's awful hurt and he needs you bad over at his office.
Liberty Valance : What's the matter, Mr. Marshal? Somebody have an accident?
Doc Willoughby : So that's it, another one of your 'accidents', huh Valance? I'm looking forward to the day when it's you they'll be calling me for.
Liberty Valance : [tossing Doc a silver dollar] Paid in advance.
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[Reese and Floyd are trying to get a lynch mob together after Stoddard kills Valance]
Tom Doniphon : Can't a man have a drink around this town in peace?
[grabs Floyd and throws him through the door]
Reese : No one's bothering you, Doniphon.
Tom Doniphon : *You* are.
[Reese goes for his gun, and Doniphon decks him]
Tom Doniphon : Marshal! What are you gettin' paid for? Drag this scum out of here.
Link Appleyard : You heard him! Now, Kaintuck and High Pockets, I deputize you to give a hand and drag this scum out of here!
Kaintuck : Give me that b-b-b-bung st-st-starter!
[grabs Reese and hauls him out]
Link Appleyard : You tell those ranchers north of the Picketwire that hired you that me, Link Appleyard, run you out of town, and I'll do it again if you ever come back!
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Link Appleyard : The jail's only got one cell, and the lock's broke and I sleep in it.
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Ransom Stoddard : Marshal, I was wrong the other day. But I was reading up on territorial law, and there it is, right there. Now, I'll draw up the complaint, take care of all the legal details - but you *do* have jurisdiction. Says so right there. So next time he sets foot in this town, you'll arrest him.
Link Appleyard : Anything you say, Mr. Stoddard. I'll be tickled to... death... *what* was that? Arrest *who*?
Ransom Stoddard : Liberty Valance.
Link Appleyard : Arrest Liberty Val... you mean Liberty Valance? Just as I was startin' to get my appetite back.
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Ransom Stoddard : [in Stoddard's classroom] How you feeling this morning?
Link Appleyard : Just fine, fine, fine.
Ransom Stoddard : Your head cold?
Link Appleyard : Uh, no, no. I uh.
[sheepishly removes hat]
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Link Appleyard : As long as he behaves himself in this town, I ain't got no, ah...
Ransom Stoddard : Jurisdiction.
Link Appleyard : What he said is right. I ain't got none of it.
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Link Appleyard : Did you know Liberty Valance is in town tonight?
Dutton Peabody : I'd be a poor newspaperman indeed if I didn't know what everybody knows!
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Tom Doniphon : All he wants you to do is put Liberty Valance in jail.
Link Appleyard : Yeah, Liberty... Liberty Valance! You think I'm crazy? Now, Tom, let me outta here.
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Hallie : He never finished that extra room, did he?
Link Appleyard : No... well, you know all about that.