Barbara Bruce: [resignedly] You're staying.
Cal Bruce: I guess old Smokestack's right this time. We've handled these diploma boys before, you know. He'll learn soon enough to stay out of our way.
Barbara Bruce: Well... alright. But you've got to promise me one thing. If this man turns out to be impossible, we're leaving. I'm not go to let anyone push you around.
Cal Bruce: Have you ever seen anyone push me around... except you and your mother?


--Barton MacLane (as Cal Bruce) in Kansas Pacific

Barbara Bruce: What's the sense in worrying about something that might not happen?
Cal Bruce: Well, if we worry enough maybe it won't happen.


--Barton MacLane (as Cal Bruce) in Kansas Pacific

[Assistant D.A. Paul Revere Smith finally meets his girlfriend's father, who was just released from prison]
Paul Revere Smith: I've been marking my day's off the calendar.
James J. Ryan: Yeah, I've been doin' the same myself.


--Barton MacLane (as ) in Hit the Road

[Dan offers the Sheriff part of a bribe]
Dan Shelby: Mr. Grover, hadn't you better take some of this?
Sheriff Lloyd Grover: What for?
Dan Shelby: A man can't live without money.
Sheriff Lloyd Grover: I'll you something, son. When it's that kind of money, a man can't live with it.


--Barton MacLane (as ) in Arizona Bushwhackers