Quotes from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

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John Wayne
Tom Doniphon: Whoa, take 'er easy there, Pilgrim.

John Wayne
Tom Doniphon: You talk too much, think too much. Besides, YOU didn't kill Liberty Valance.

James Stewart
Ransom Stoddard: [looking into Doniphon's coffin, angrily] Where are his boots?
Undertaker: Aw, Ranse, they were brand new...
Ransom Stoddard: Give him back his boots!

John Wayne
Ransom Stoddard: I don't want to kill him, I just want to put him in jail!
Tom Doniphon: Ohhh...

Carleton Young
Ransom Stoddard: You're not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Jeanette Nolan
Nora Ericson: Poppa - go put your pants on!

Edmond O'Brien
Election Council President: [at the territorial statehood convention] The chair recognizes its old friend; that distinguished member of the Fourth Estate, founder, owner, publisher and editor of the Shinbone Star, Mr. Dutton Peabody, Esquire!
Dutton Peabody: Thank you, thank you, Mister Chairman, for those kind words; but why don't you tell them the whole truth: founder, owner, editor, and I also sweep out the place.

John Wayne
Dutton Peabody: [protesting his nomination to the statehood convention] Good people of Shinbone; I, I'm your conscience, I'm the small voice that thunders in the night, I'm your watchdog who howls against the wolves, I, I'm your father confessor! I - I'm... what else am I?
Tom Doniphon: Town drunk?

Edmond O'Brien
Dutton Peabody: [to Liberty Valance and his gang who have been waiting for him in the newspaper office] Liberty Valance... and his myrmidons!

Edmond O'Brien
Dutton Peabody: As for you, Old Man: go West and grow young with the country!

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