Dan Mitchell: Now, Bravo, I thought we were old friends.
Sheriff Bravo Trimble: We are, Dan, we are. But you got the idea that you ought to kick up a fuss about things that are going to happen anyway. I don't figure it that way. A man's got to live. Cows get lost, sometimes accidents happen and fellas get killed. Why get hot under the collar about I? And why go hunting for fellas that don't want to be found?


--Edgar Buchanan (as Sheriff 'Bravo' Trimble) in Abilene Town

Judge Crenshaw: Mr. Burns, I've heard you were an honest man and good with a gun. But I also heard you confessed to weakness for liquor, cards and women.
Walter 'Yukon' Burns: Not women, your Honor. They ain't for the weak.


--Edgar Buchanan (as ) in The Big Trees

Brett Wade: I was just listing my friends.
Sheriff Cauthen: What about your enemies?
Brett Wade: All my friends are my enemies. I hate 'em because I have to leave 'em.
Sheriff Cauthen: Yeah, that's the part I like best. You leaving.


--Edgar Buchanan (as ) in Dawn at Socorro

Elder Bixby: Violence is not our creed.
Walter 'Yukon' Burns: Yeah, I know. And I believe in turning the other cheek... but you just run out of cheeks. It's time to start growing some religious muscle.


--Edgar Buchanan (as ) in The Big Trees

Alicia Chadwick: Men have been known to change.
Walter 'Yukon' Burns: Oh, lady, even I have been given up by women reformers! The biggest mistake a woman can make is to pick the wrong man and try to make him right.


--Edgar Buchanan (as ) in The Big Trees

[Destry is checking all the saloon patron's guns]
The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers, Mayor: I'm like you, I never carry a gun. I prefer a bow and arrow.


--Edgar Buchanan (as ) in Destry

Sheriff Bravo Trimble: Just one little game, Annie.


--Edgar Buchanan (as Sheriff 'Bravo' Trimble) in Abilene Town