Marshal Len Merrick: [Seeing Dan Roden go for the gun of a sleeping deputy, he cocks his pistol and speaks authoritatively] He's asleep, but I'm not!

- Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Len Merrick) in Along the Great Divide (1951)

Marshal Len Merrick: You're all guilty. You'll all pay.

- Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Len Merrick) in Along the Great Divide (1951)

Timothy 'Pop' Keith: [In the midst of singing "Down in the Valley"] I never thought I'd be singin' my way to my own trial.
Marshal Len Merrick: [Painfully listening to him continue to sing] Mister, they're trying you for the wrong crime.

- Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Len Merrick) in Along the Great Divide (1951)

Timothy 'Pop' Keith: [to Merrick] Just as long as you're conscious, I'm a goner, so I aim to make you unconscious.

- Walter Brennan (as Timothy 'Pop' Keith) in Along the Great Divide (1951)

Timothy 'Pop' Keith: Put this down. 'Whereas, I hearby bequeath my homestead to my daughter... '
Billy Shear: You don't need 'whereas' and the 'hereby.'
Timothy 'Pop' Keith: Well, I'll leave that up to you. But just be sure there's enough whereases in there to make any law angler set up and take notice, huh?

- Walter Brennan (as Timothy 'Pop' Keith) in Along the Great Divide (1951)

Billy Shear: If she's as good cooking as she's at ambushing, what have we got to lose?
Marshal Len Merrick: Only our lives.

- Kirk Douglas (as Marshal Len Merrick) in Along the Great Divide (1951)

Timothy 'Pop' Keith: You know it's frightening what can happen to a man. A law officer in the family! It's downright terrifyin'!

- Walter Brennan (as Timothy 'Pop' Keith) in Along the Great Divide (1951)