John P. Clum: Wyatt, the law won't work when part of it is ignored because everyone is either bought off or terrified.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal: Then I'll enforce the part that does work!

- James Garner (as Wyatt Earp) in Hour of the Gun (1967)

Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: You got some kind of plan?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal: I have.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: Want to tell me about it?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal: We take whoever gets in our way.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: You call that a plan?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal: You got a better one?

- James Garner (as Wyatt Earp) in Hour of the Gun (1967)

Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal: A man's life... for fifty dollars. I'm gonna give you a chance to make another fifty dolars.
Andy Warshaw: I don't want such a chance.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal: My men will stay back. I'm gonna count one, two, three. You can draw on two - I'll wait to three. If you get me, my boys won't bother you.

- James Garner (as Wyatt Earp) in Hour of the Gun (1967)

Ike Clanton: Get this through your heads. If this was the east, I could make law the way they do. But the best I can do out here is buy it.

- Robert Ryan in Hour of the Gun (1967)

[the mortally wounded Morgan Earp whispers in Wyatt's ear]
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: What did he say?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal: When we were kids, we used to argue about whether when you were dying, your whole life flashed in front of you or not. He said, "It ain't so, Wyatt."

- James Garner (as Wyatt Earp) in Hour of the Gun (1967)