- [first lines]
- Captain Fry: There's the Sultana, Mr. Administrator.
- John Colton: Hmm, twenty minutes early.
- Captain Fry: Well, you know Mr. Derringer put a new boiler in her.
- John Colton: Captain Fry, I suspect she's faster not because of the new boiler, but because Captain Tom is anxious to get Custer off his hands and into mine.
- John Colton: Fighting besides you was an honor. Your bravery, your leadership on the battlefield were an inspiration to me, but those are not the reasons for your suspension and I won't help you.
- [discussing the attacks on Custer's life using Indian weapons]
- Yancy Derringer: Suppose it was a white man who lived with the Indians...
- Colorado Charlie: Like me.
- Yancy Derringer: That knew them and sympathized with them...
- Colorado Charlie: Like me.
- Yancy Derringer: Wanted to kill Custer for what he'd done to them, wanted anyone to know the reason why...
- Colorado Charlie: Unh-uh. Not like me.
- General George Custer: I'll deal with you later.
- Colorado Charlie: I'll be waitin'... all out of breath.
- General George Custer: Thank you for your hospitality, ladies.
- Madame Francine: Hurry back, General.
- Pearl Girl: Don't over do it.
- General George Custer: Derringer, are you a gambler?
- Yancy Derringer: I've been known to take a fly.
- General George Custer: I'd like to make a bet with you.
- Yancy Derringer: You name it.
- General George Custer: I'll bet your blood-brother Pawnee is trying to kill me and I have a way to prove it. If I win, it's his scalp.
- Yancy Derringer: And if you lose - yours?
- General George Custer: Derringer, a lot of redskins have tried to take Longhair's scalp and died in the trying.
- Yancy Derringer: I was thinking about myself.
- General George Custer: You don't like me much, huh?
- Yancy Derringer: Mr. Custer, I think you are a very brave man, but you're not very smart. You're an ambitious man, but not for you country - strictly for yourself.
- General George Custer: Well, I lose. Would you like to try for Longhair's scalp?
- Yancy Derringer: I'll leave that up to your Indian friends, Mr. Custer.
- [last lines]
- John Colton: You should feel proud, Yancy. You saved the life of...
- Yancy Derringer: Pahoo-Ke-Ta-Wah?
- John Colton: Well, I was going to say, "General George Armstrong Custer".
- Yancy Derringer: I wonder what fate we saved him for.
- [while menacing music plays, the camera goes into a close-up of the Indian Pahoo's face]