- Wayne York: [to Judd] You remember one thing. Brandon Hill ain't fit to live. And if you get him off... you ain't fit to live either. Just remember that.
- Clinton Judd: Brandon Hill is my client. With that way-out line and insolent grin of his, he's my client. And our whole adversary concept of law is based on one thing: That a Brandon Hill is entitled to the best defense he can get, no matter how anyone feels. I'm not even permitted now to care how I feel. In that courtroom, I'm not a person. I'm a lawyer.
- Brandon Hill: [gloating after Judd's cross-examination of Reece] You handled him beautifully.
- Clinton Judd: Turn your face away or I'll put my fist through it.
- Clinton Judd: When my father was shot, there were twenty men lounging around that square. One came running to help. Dirty Old Reece. Just one man, and one too feeble to really help. And now I'm supposed to pay that man back by hammering him to a pulp.
- Brandon Hill: I just wanted to show you people what you were really like. You're a bunch of fat cats, you know that? You write your little checks, and you make the laws. And when anything happens to break your patterns or your molds, what do you do? What do you do, huh? You run and hide behind day before yesterday. I wasn't on trial here. I hope you know that. You were. And you were all guilty. Guilty as accused by me, Brandon Hill.