Jim Vesser Quotes 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.

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.

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.

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!