Jane Dwyer: You've been drinking!
Engineer Moynihan: Not a drop, so help me.

- Paul Fix in Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

Engineer Moynihan: Get firing!

- Paul Fix in Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: I saw him shoot those two men. Isn't that enough without torturing this one?
Jim Vesser: And I suppose they weren't trying to do anything except kill me.

- Edmond O'Brien in Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: People like Vesser consider themselves above the law. If he didn't lose his nerve then it's his conscience that bothers him.
Gen. William J. Palmer: Well Linda I say it's a good idea for Captain Vesser to keep out of your way.
Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: I'd like to meet him.

- Kasey Rogers in Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: That flatcar's coming.
Jim Vesser: Don't worry, that wall will hold it.
Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: It's loaded with dynamite.
Jim Vesser: Everybody run!

- Edmond O'Brien in Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

Jim Vesser: We've been surveying this route for three weeks!
McCabe: And so have we.
Bob Nelson: Don't get hot-headed Jim. Looks like it's for the courts to decide.
Jim Vesser: There's nothing in my orders that says I have to wait for any courts to make up their minds. We're going through.
Bob Nelson: Not along our stakes.
Jim Vesser: We'll throw them in the river.
McCabe: You throw one stake in the river and I'll throw you in right after it.

- Sterling Hayden in Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

Jim Vesser: Who put you up to this?
CC&SJ Man: Nobody put us up to anything.
Jim Vesser: Well, you're fired!
CC&SJ Man: Who are you to fire me? You didn't hire me!
Gil Harkness: No but I did... and you're fired.

- J. Carrol Naish in Denver and Rio Grande (1952)