Shorty: The law won't let you get away with this.
Glyn McLyntock: What law?

- James Stewart (as Glyn McLyntock) in Bend of the River (1952)

Jeremy Baile: Good country, Glyn.
Glyn McLyntock: Yeah, real good country.
Jeremy Baile: Let's hope we can keep it this way. Missouri and Kansas was like this when I first saw 'em... good, clean. It was the men who came in to steal and kill that changed things. We mustn't let it happen here.

- Jay C. Flippen (as Jeremy Baile) in Bend of the River (1952)

Jeremy Baile: I don't like that man Cole.
Glyn McLyntock: Why not?
Jeremy Baile: I heard Grundy say he was a raider on the Missouri border.
Glyn McLyntock: Well, lots of people used to raid along the border.
Jeremy Baile: That kind can't change. When an apple's rotten, there's nothing you can do except throw it away or it will spoil the whole barrel.
Glyn McLyntock: Well, there's a difference between men and apples.

- James Stewart (as Glyn McLyntock) in Bend of the River (1952)

Glyn McLyntock: Always point this (the wagon tongue) toward the North Star. Then come morning, we'll know where we're going.

- James Stewart (as Glyn McLyntock) in Bend of the River (1952)

Glyn McLyntock: I thought we were out of Cheyenne country. What do you make of that?
Emerson Cole: Shoshoni. Real mean when they want to be. Lately, they want to be.

- Arthur Kennedy (as Emerson Cole) in Bend of the River (1952)

Glyn McLyntock: So you've decided to stay in Portland.
Emerson Cole: For a while, then thought I would drift on down to California
Glyn McLyntock: Still following that star.
Glyn McLyntock: Sometimes it's better than having a man with a star following you.

- James Stewart (as Glyn McLyntock) in Bend of the River (1952)

Emerson Cole: I'll be seeing you, Glyn.
Glyn McLyntock: You'll be seeing me. You'll be seeing me. Everytime you bed down for the night, you'll look back to the darkness and wonder if I'm there. And some night, I will be. You'll be seeing me!

- James Stewart (as Glyn McLyntock) in Bend of the River (1952)

Emerson Cole: Never mix marriage with gambling. Percentage is all against it.

- Arthur Kennedy (as Emerson Cole) in Bend of the River (1952)