Garth: Lots of trials we rode together, Cord. Lots of things I learned from you.
John Cord: You can forget 'em.
Garth: Some things a man doesn't forget, like John Cord's rule for a herd-drinking special - always carry your own keg of whiskey. Let the men break it open in camp to let off some steam. Keeps them from werecking an innocent town.
John Cord: I don't seem to remember that at the trial.

- Joel McCrea in Cattle Empire (1958)

Garth: Nothing to it, Cord. Betwen us we could build the biggest cattle empire this country has ever seen.
John Cord: I'm not interested in cattle empires, but for the Fort Clemson drive, you got yourself a trail boss.

- Joel McCrea in Cattle Empire (1958)

Ralph Hamilton: We've got a trail boss who can feed the herd on burned tumbleweed, water it on dried mud and get us there with more cattle than we had to start with!

- Don Haggerty in Cattle Empire (1958)

Tom Jefferson Jeffrey: We'd stick by you till hell froze over and you could skate on it.

- Paul Brinegar in Cattle Empire (1958)

John Cord: Nobody in his right mind could ask John Cord to move a herd now.
Ralph Hamilton: Nobody but John Cord could move a herd this size - five thousand head full of ringers.
John Cord: I'm lookin' at this room. It doesn't make me think you're desperate... doesn't make me think movin' five thousand head of cattle is life or death.
Ralph Hamilton: Rooms don't change much but bank accounts do.

- Don Haggerty in Cattle Empire (1958)

John Cord: Seems like you're always with the cattle.
Sandy Jeffrey: Seems like they're better than most people to be with.

- Gloria Talbott in Cattle Empire (1958)

John Cord: You know, I ws thinkin' about havin' a drink. Either of you interested?
George Washington Jeffrey: Interested? Noooo.
Tom Jefferson Jeffrey: The only thing he's interested in is when you're goin' to ask us.

- Paul Brinegar in Cattle Empire (1958)