Fred Johnson Quotes in Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

[Jason is inquiring about the job of sheriff]

Jason McCullough: Well, gentlemen, I think it's only fair to tell you that I'd only be interested in this job on a temporary basis.

Henry Jackson: Oh?

Jason McCullough: Well, you see, actually I was on my way to Australia when I heard about your gold strike and I decided to, uh, travel through here and see if I couldn't pick myself up a little stake.

Thomas Devery: What do you want to go to Australia for?

Jason McCullough: Well, it's the last of the frontier country. Thought I might like to do a little pioneering.

Fred Johnson: I thought this was frontier country and we was pioneers.

Henry Jackson: So did I.

Fred Johnson: I heard that the sheriff was gonna leave town.

Henry Jackson: I did too, And at the time I heard it, I remember saying to myself, "That sheriff has his head set squarely on his shoulders."

Prudy: Well, now he's NOT gonna leave town.

Mayor Ollie Perkins: And I'd like to get my hands on whoever it was that caused him to change his mind.

Henry Jackson: Me too. Man with that good an idea oughta be encouraged to hold on to it.

Prudy: What is the matter with all of you? Don't you remember how long we waited to find a man who'd stand up to the Danbys? Don't you remember what this town was like before - murderings, lynchings, miners shooting up the town day and night?

Fred Johnson: And aside from the few things that you just mentioned, it wasn't a bad place at all!

Jason McCullough: Gentlemen, do we have a jail here?

Mayor Olly Perkins: Do we have a jail? A brand new one with two cells that the whole community pitched in and built last month!

Fred Johnson: Just like a barn raising.

Henry Jackson: Even the dancehall girls showed up. They made sandwiches and carried on like crazy.

Mayor Olly Perkins: It was designed to be practically escape proof.

Jason McCullough: Well, good, because I think I'm going to have to throw a couple of people in it.

Mayor Olly Perkins: There's only one thing. This new jail is sure got everything.

Fred Johnson: Even a new stove with a coffee pot already on it.

Mayor Olly Perkins: The only thing it hasn't got is iron bars for the cells.

Henry Jackson: I'd like to remind everyone we're here to consign the remains of Millard Frymore.

Fred Johnson: It's gold, Henry.

Henry Jackson: Gold?

Fred Johnson: Down there in the grave.

Henry Jackson: Well, let's get this coffin out of the way and have a look.

Henry Jackson: Now just because we've lost three sheriffs don't mean we're going to lose four.

Fred Johnson: Our luck is bound to change.

Mayor Olly Perkins: What about his luck?