- Kate Schoonover: I love Johnse Hatfield so much. Why don't he see that?
- Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts: On account you're a whore?
- Kate Schoonover: Better than some McCoy bitch!
- [first lines]
- Tolbert McCoy: Come on. Hurry up... Stop. See, I wanted to shoot you myself, but I gotta humor my brothers. In a couple of minutes, when the sun comes up, I'm gonna give you this pistol and will you do the honorable thing and kill yourself?
- Johnse Hatfield: Why in God's name would I do that?
- Tolbert McCoy: Shame and remorse.
- Johnse Hatfield: Bullshit!
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: [emerging from the woods] Guns down... Now!... I said now.
- Good Lias Hatfield: Do what he says or I'll scatter your brains all over this place.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: The rest of you, kneel down there next to your brother. And pray as if your lives depended on it, on account that it do. Are you deaf, McCoy? I said to kneel.
- Jim McCoy: I kneel for no man. And I pray only to God. Not you.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: You a brave man, Jim McCoy.
- [holsters his gun]
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: Your daddy should be proud.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: [to the condemned] You boys understand what's gonna happen here? You understand why? Make yourselves ready.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: [taking his place on the firing line] Aim! Harden your hearts.
- [begins shooting]
- Perry Cline: I suspect you know why I called this meeting here this morning?
- 'Bad' Frank Phillips: Y'all looking for someone to lead a posse across the river. And I'm the only gun handler round here who's man enough for the job.
- Randall McCoy: You're awful full of yourself, ain't you?
- 'Bad' Frank Phillips: I wouldn't call it that. I wasted some years of my misspent youth a-riding with Jesse and Frank. Once got to witness Wild Bill kill a man, so I seen better than me. Though not many. And I can't help but see what you gotta choose from.
- Perry Cline: I didn't realize you'd once been an outlaw.
- 'Bad' Frank Phillips: Well, that, of course, was before I was saved. Long prior to my being washed clean of sin by the blood of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ.
- Randall McCoy: You sure don't act Christian.
- 'Bad' Frank Phillips: I'm a warrior for God, Mr. McCoy. A fighter of evil. Right and ready to take on your demon murderers.
- Randall McCoy: There's so much I wanted to give you. So much, Sally. But all I brought you is pain in this life.
- Sally McCoy: Others have but not you. You always believe what you say, Randall. That is a rare quality and I admire you for it.
- Randall McCoy: That why you married me?
- Sally McCoy: I married you because one day you're gonna buy me that electric double-boiler.
- [last lines]
- John B. Floyd: I petitioned the U.S. District Court for writs of habeas corpus on our imprisoned citizens. Now, Governor Wilson has had a heated exchange of telegrams with Governor Buckner.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: Heated exchange?
- John B. Floyd: Yes, sir.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: You hear that, Wall? They had a They had themselves a heated exchange. Get me troopers at the border, John. Troopers at the border. So when McCoy tries it again, you stop his ass.
- Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield: John. John. What these son of bitches are doing is illegal. Ain't no out-of-state lawman got the right to invade another sovereign state, to abduct citizens warrant or no damn warrant.
- John B. Floyd: I sent an official requisition to Kentucky calling for the arrest of Frank Phillips and 23 members of his posse.
- William 'Cap' Hatfield: Kentucky ain't gonna do nothing.
- John B. Floyd: But if they try to invade West Virginia again, Mr. McCoy's posse can be arrested here.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: Mm hmm. By who?
- Good Lias Hatfield: Aw, hell, deputize *us*, give us a few cannons, we'll ride into Pikeville, end this shit right now.
- John B. Floyd: Sir, you are talking about starting another civil war.
- 'Devil' Anse Hatfield: That's not talk, John. That's what we already got. So you tell the governor, he steps in, or I will.
- Jim Vance: I hope you and all your kin and friends and babies come try and rescue 'em, so we can kill you all at once, not drag it out.
- Preacher Dyke Garrett: Captain Anderson Hatfield sent me to fetch you. He promised Randall.
- Sally McCoy: Ellison?
- Preacher Dyke Garrett: Passed over Jordan to sing with the angels.
- Nancy McCoy: Easier seein' President Chester A. Arthur than passin' through these woods to get your shine.
- Johnse Hatfield: Uncle Wall, I'd like you to marry us, me and Nancy McCoy.
- Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield: [laughs] Jesus H. Christ almighty! Boy, you gone plumb crazy.
- 'Bad' Frank Phillips: Jim Vance is on the list. Sooner or later, we gonna get every damn one.
- Nancy McCoy: Not just get him, kill him.
- Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield: Do your Ma and Pa know?
- Johnse Hatfield: You know, I ain't askin' this time. Please, Uncle Wall. Me marryin' a McCoy can help end all this dyin' 'tween our families.
- Perry Cline: The only success we've had in capturing our fugitives has been with Bad Frank.
- Randall McCoy: I do not like that man. That man is a savage.
- Perry Cline: He's the only one equal to the task.
- Sally McCoy: [from across the room] Can this bad man, this savage, can he bring me my boys back?