Movie Quotes for Man+Who+Shot+Liberty+Valance,+The

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Jason Tully: Nothings too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance.

Liberty Valance: [shouting] Hashslinger; you out here?
High Pockets: Id say that was Liberty Valance there now; wouldnt
  you?
Ransom Stoddard: Yes, I would.
Kaintuck: W-w-well be seein you, Mr. Stoddard.

Tom Doniphon: Liberty Valances the toughest man south of the
  Picketwire - next to me.

Ransom Stoddard: Marshal, I was wrong the other day. But I was
  reading up on territorial law, and there it is, right there. Now,
  Ill 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, youll arrest him.
Link Appleyard: Anything you say, Mr. Stoddard. Ill 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.

Link Appleyard: Did you know Liberty Valance is in town tonight?
Dutton Peabody: Id be a poor newspaperman indeed if I didnt know
  what everybody knows!

Liberty Valance: You got a choice, Dishwasher. Either you get out of
  town, or tonight you be out on that street alone. You be there, and
  dont make us come and get you.

Link Appleyard: Mr. Peabodys awful hurt and he needs you bad over at
  his office.
Liberty Valance: Whats the matter, Mr. Marshal? Somebody have an
  accident?
Doc Willoughby: So thats it, another one of your accidents, huh
  Valance? Im looking forward to the day when its you theyll be
  calling me for.
Liberty Valance: [tossing Doc a silver dollar] Paid in advance.

Liberty Valance: You lookin for trouble, Doniphon?
Tom Doniphon: You aim to help me find some?

High Pockets: Well, Mr. Professor. I thought you left town. What are
  you doin out here?
Ransom Stoddard: Im waiting for Liberty Valance. Why doesnt he come
  out?
Kaintuck: Well, th-th-thats n-n-none of our b-b-b-business.

Dutton Peabody: [to Liberty Valance and his gang who have been
  waiting for him in the newspaper office] Liberty Valance... and his
  myrmidons!

Tom Doniphon: [Doniphon has just told Stoddard what really happened
  the night Liberty Valance was shot] Hallies your girl now. Go back
  in there and take that nomination. You taught her how to read and
  write; now give her something to read and write about!

Tom Doniphon: [Valance has tripped Rance in the diner, causing him to
  spill a tray of food] Thats *my* steak, Valance.
Liberty Valance: [laughing] You heard him, Dude. Pick it up.
Ransom Stoddard: No!
Tom Doniphon: Pilgrim, hold it. I said you, Valance; *you* pick it
  up.
Liberty Valance: Three against one, Doniphon.
Tom Doniphon: My boy, Pompey; kitchen door.
[Valance looks and sees Pompey at the door holding a rifle]
Floyd: Ill get it, Liberty!
[Doniphon kicks Floyd in the face as he bends down to retrieve the
  tray]

Election Council President: [after a mounted politician working for
  Langhorne has ridden a horse into the convention and performed rope
  tricks for the audience] This is a convention, *not* a rodeo,
  Langhorne!

Ransom Stoddard: Youre not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend
  becomes fact, print the legend.

Dutton Peabody: [during voting for the territorial convention] Ill
  have the usual, Jack.
Jack, Barman: The bar is closed, Mister Editor, during voting.
Dutton Peabody: Bars closed?
Tom Doniphon: You can blame your lawyer friend. He says thats one of
  the "Fundamental laws of democracy." No exception.
Dutton Peabody: No exceptions for the working press? Why, thats
  carrying democracy much too far!

[Pompey has gone into the saloon after Tom]
Barman: [indicating that he cant serve Pompey due to his being
  black] Now look, Pompey. You know I...
Tom Doniphon: [drunk] Who says he cant? Pour yourself a drink,
  Pompey.
Pompey: You know I dont drink no drams, Mr. Tom.
Tom Doniphon: I said take a drink.
Pompey: No, sir. We got a mare in foal, and horses to feed and water.
  You come on home.

Dutton Peabody: [protesting his nomination to the statehood
  convention] Good people of Shinbone; I, Im your conscience, Im
  the small voice that thunders in the night, Im your watchdog who
  howls against the wolves, I, Im your father confessor! I - Im...
  what else am I?
Tom Doniphon: Town drunk?

[Doniphon has just faced down Valance in the diner]
Tom Doniphon: Well, now; I wonder what scared em off?
Dutton Peabody: [poking fun at Stoddard for his idealism] You know
  what scared em - the spectacle of law and order here, risin up
  out of the gravy and the mashed potatoes.

Link Appleyard: The jails only got one cell, and the locks broke
  and I sleep in it.

Election Council President: [at the territorial statehood convention]
  The chair recognizes its old friend; that distinguished member of
  the Fourth Estate, founder, owner, publisher and editor of the
  Shinbone Star, Mr. Dutton Peabody, Esquire!
Dutton Peabody: Thank you, thank you, Mister Chairman, for those kind
  words; but why dont you tell them the whole truth: founder, owner,
  editor, and I also sweep out the place.

Floyd: Its Liberty! He - hes hurt! [Doc approaches Valances body]
  Its Liberty.
Doc Willoughby: Whiskey, quick.
Person on street: Here, sir.
Doc Willoughby: [takes a drink, turns Valances body over with his
  foot] Dead. [walks off]

Hallie: Rance, do you think I could... I mean, grown up and all... do
  you think I could learn to read?
Ransom Stoddard: Why, sure you can, Hallie. Why, theres nothing to
  it. Itd be... itd be easy. Can you learn how to read? Why, I
  can... I can teach you. A smart girl like you? Of course you can
  learn how to read. Now, do you want to try?
Hallie: Its awful worrisome not knowing how. I know the Good Book
  from preacher talk; but itd be a soul comfort if I could read the
  words myself.

Dutton Peabody: As for you, Old Man: go West and grow young with the
  country!

[Reese and Floyd are trying to get a lynch mob together after
  Stoddard kills Valance]
Tom Doniphon: Cant a man have a drink around this town in peace?
[grabs Floyd and throws him through the door]
Reese: No ones 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 Ill do
  it again if you ever come back!

Dutton Peabody: Give me a drink.
Tom Doniphon: Bars closed.
Dutton Peabody: Just a beer!
Tom Doniphon: The bars closed.
Dutton Peabody: A beers not drinking!