- [Bret wins a horse from Kelly in a poker game]
- Kelly: The horse's name is Liberty. He does best with a kind word and a light touch.
- Bret Maverick: Most folks do.
- Tom Guthrie: Jack, I'll need a copy of last month's bar receipts, and when you close up tonight you and the boys put a shine on everything that doesn't move.
- Jack the Bartender: Company comin'?
- Tom Guthrie: You might say that.
- [referring to Bret's magnificent new horse]
- Cy Whittaker: You buy that or steal it?
- Bret Maverick: I won it.
- Cy Whittaker: Same difference.
- [referring to Tom's recent suspicious activities]
- Bret Maverick: Oh, it's like my old pappy always said, "There's no shame in being boondoogled... providin' you know why."
- Jack the Bartender: What did she look like?
- Mary Lou Springer: Like a peacock in heat - plenty of plumage on too little bird!
- Jessica 'Dolly' Denard: Who knows, this could be the start of an interesting relationship.
- Tom Guthrie: I'd say we've come a ways past "interesting" already, wouldn't you?
- Mary Lou Springer: Where's the Teddy Roosevelt who came to me the other night - the man on a mission, summoned by history itself!
- Congressman Theodore Roosevelt: He should be out hunting wild bears. They're safer.
- [Bret and Tom have been arrested as horse thieves]
- Bret Maverick: For somebody who's in this thing up to his neck, you don't seem all that upset.
- Tom Guthrie: Well, what for? We are ridin' a famous Maverick hot streak... ain't we, partner?