Sam Dodd Quotes in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

Judge Roy Bean: Do you have anything to say before we find you guilty?

Sam Dodd: I'm not guilty of nothing. There's no crime that I've done wrong.

Judge Roy Bean: Do you deny the killing?

Sam Dodd: I do not deny it. But there's no place in that book where it says nothing about killing a Chinese. And no one I know ever heard a law on greasers, niggers, or injuns.

Judge Roy Bean: All men stand equal before the law. And I will hang a man for killing anyone, including Chinks, greasers, or niggers! I'm very advanced in my views and outspoken.

Sam Dodd: There's no place in that book that...

Judge Roy Bean: Trust in my judgment of the book. Besides, you're gonna hang no matter what it says in there, 'cause I am the law, and the law is the handmaiden of justice. Get a rope.

Sam Dodd: [about to be hung] Don't I get to say nuthin'?

Judge Roy Bean: By all means.

Sam Dodd: I want to say that I still believe this whole thing's a mistake and that I am no worse and probably better than the men that are about to end my days.

Judge Roy Bean: Well spoken, son.