You're not goin', not this time. Are you crazy? It's too late. She's a woman grown now....

Laurie Jorgensen: [Martin is preparing to join a raid against the Indians and rescue Debbie] You're not goin', not this time. Martin: Are you crazy? Laurie Jorgensen: It's too late. She's a woman grown now. Martin: But I gotta go, Laurie, I gotta fetch her home. Laurie Jorgensen: Fetch what home? The leavings a Comanche buck sold time and again to the highest bidder, with savage brats of her own? Martin: Laurie, shut your mouth. Laurie Jorgensen: Do you know what Ethan will do if he has a chance? He'll put a bullet in her brain. [pause] Laurie Jorgensen: I tell you, Martha would want him to. Martin: Only if I'm dead.

I'm countin' on you to look after things while I'm gone. -You're not goin'. -He is going. I already swore him in. Swear him out! I'll go. I don't think I should... Stay close, Aaron. It might be, this is rustlers. Might be this dodderin' ol' idiot ain't so far wrong. Could be Comanches. Kind words, Ethan. Thank you kindly. Children, go with Lucy. Oh, Mom... Ben! All right. I'll swear you in. No need to. It wouldn't be legal anyway. Why not? You wanted for a crime, Ethan? Coffee, Ethan. Thank you, Martha. Are you asking me as a captain or a preacher, Sam? I'm asking you as a ranger of the sovereign state of Texas. You got a warrant? You fit a lot of descriptions. I figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America. So did you, Sam. Stay close, Aaron. Thank you, Mrs. Edwards. We have to be going. Thank you, Mrs. Edwards. Grateful to the hospitality of your rocking chair, ma'am. "Brad and Lucy, Lucy and Brad