Ben Sage Quotes in McLintock! (1963)

George Washington McLintock: Hello, Ben.

Ben Sage: Hey, McLintock.

George Washington McLintock: Drago, throw that in the buggy.

Ben Sage: That's a scrubby bunch of sooners, eh?

George Washington McLintock: They are at that.

Young Ben Sage: Ought to make Douglas happy. Lining his pocket with land fees.

Ben Sage: What are we gonna do?

George Washington McLintock: I don't know what you're going to do, Ben. Me I do nothing.

Young Ben Sage: Two hundred families. Quarter of beef a week per family. They last two years that could become a sizable number.

George Washington McLintock: I've got 20 head to 1 of any other brand on the Mesa Verdi. I'm not hollerin'.

Young Ben Sage: Some of us haven't got all the money in the world. Some of us aren't old and tired, feel like bein' put upon.

George Washington McLintock: You interest me, young Ben. Go on.

Young Ben Sage: So the first time I find one of our hides wearin' our brand hung on one of those settler's fences I aim to kill me a plow boy. You do what you want, McLintock, we'll do what we want.

George Washington McLintock: Fellas my age generally call me G.W. or McLintock. Youngsters call me Mr. McLintock.

Young Ben Sage: Alright. Mr. McLintock. Not because I'm afraid of ya. You're the big he stud of this country and I recon a fella my age should call you mister.

Ben Sage: He's full grown now, G.W. He's half owner of the spread. I made him a full partner the day the doc gave me the long face.

George Washington McLintock: Well, you want him to vote the first time this territory becomes a state, don't ya?

Ben Sage: Course I do.

George Washington McLintock: These settler's get burned out there'll be a lot of hollerin' that this country's too wild to be a state. We'll go on being a territory some more with a lot of political appointees runnin' it according to what they learned in some college where they think that cows are something you milk and Indians are something in front of a cigar store. I'm lookin' to you to hold young Ben down.

Ben Sage: I'll do what I can.

George Washington McLintock: Come on over to the house now and then. We'll rack up a few hands of stud.

Ben Sage: G.W. that'll be just fine.