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	Season 4 / Episode 26: - Point and Counterpoint Jarrod Barkley: I've been doing a little thinking since I had that talk with Nick about the hard practicalities of politics - all the compromises - the really hard facts I hadn't thought about. I just decided I wasn't a policitican after all. I'm a lawyer.
	Season 4 / Episode 22: - The Other Face of Justice Nick Barkley: Look what Hank's got underlined here: "They have sown the wind; they shall reap the whirlwind." Heath Barkley: Doesn't seem like a fit epitaph for old Hank. Nick Barkley: Yeah, but it's a fit one for the men that killed him.
	Season 4 / Episode 21: - The Battle of Mineral Springs Jarrod Barkley: How was yours? Victoria Barkley: Awful. But at least the portions were small.
	Season 4 / Episode 21: - The Battle of Mineral Springs Victoria Barkley: Young lady, two people can have the finest meal in the fanciest restaurant in San Francisco for half of what you charged. Janie: San Francisco must be a wonderful place! Victoria Barkley: You can't ask for a better explanation than that.
	Season 4 / Episode 21: - The Battle of Mineral Springs Victoria Barkley: Pay the lady before she remembers to charge us for the salt and pepper. Janie: Oh no, ma'am, that comes with the meal. Jarrod Barkley: And it was the best part of it. Young lady, I hope you will have the decency to use some of your ill-gotten gains to buy your cook a cookbook.
	Season 4 / Episode 21: - The Battle of Mineral Springs Crawford: You can't arrest me! Jarrod Barkley: Oh, can't I? Take a look at that. Crawford: Now, that's a U.S. Deputy's badge. Jarrod Barkley: My, what good eyes you have, Grandma.
	Season 4 / Episode 2: - They Called Her Delilah Audra Barkley: Jarrod, how could someone do that - turn on their own people? Jarrod Barkley: There have been spies as long as there have been wars, Audra. Audra Barkley: But she was born and raised in the North. She wasn't a spy - she was a traitor!
	Season 4 / Episode 2: - They Called Her Delilah Worth Parker: Lawyers turn down cases. Nobody's making you defend her. Jarrod Barkley: That's true. Worth Parker: Well, why then? Jarrod Barkley: If I thought it was any of your business, Worth, I'd have consulted you before I took the case. As it is, you're right - no one is making me defend Julia Saxon... and no one is going to make me not defend her, either.
	Season 3 / Episode 14: - Journey into Violence Hemit: [after supervising Heath Barkley's flogging] I hope by now that you have learned the hopelessness of trying to escape, for the next time your punishment will not be so simple.
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - Four Days to Furnace Hill Victoria Barkley: Let me out of here! Let me out of here! Burke Jordan: The last lady that yelled that never got back in again. Better save your strength. You're going to need it when you get to Furnance Hill. Victoria Barkley: Furnance Hill? Burke Jordan: Never heard of it? It's a prison due east of here... about four days as the buzzards fly.
	Season 3 / Episode 8: - The Disappearance George Gates: Now, if there's anything you ladies want, just holler. Nobody will hear you, but its good for the lungs.
	Season 2 / Episode 30: - Cage of Eagles Patrick Madigan: Shall we have another go at it? Nick Barkley: You show your tail on this property again and I'm sure we will.
	Season 2 / Episode 30: - Cage of Eagles Nick Barkley: Oh, will you two clear out of here? I'm trying to tame this bird and I'm not getting any help from you. Jarrod Barkley: You're not getting any help from the bird, either.
	Season 2 / Episode 30: - Cage of Eagles Major Wilson: I understand from Jarrod this man came in out of nowhere as it were. Nick Barkley: Came in answer to my notice. Major Wilson: References? Recommendations? What papers establishing that he indeed can be trusted with dynamite? Patrick Madigan: Haven't you heard? It's become an Irish specialty.
	Season 2 / Episode 30: - Cage of Eagles Mack: Tell me, Madigan, what kind of country is that Ireland place? Patrick Madigan: Well, it's the land of leprechauns and the Kellys and the O'Breins and the Blarney Stone, but that's not all there is. Oh, it's a land for poets to tell about, not a fool like me. Oh, it's the smoke of peat and the slow creak of carts along the road, the Connemara ponies... Sweet land it is, though often sad.
	Season 2 / Episode 22: - Price of Victory Heath: Just use your head, Nick. Nick Barkley: Can't. Heath: Why not? Nick Barkley: Marquis of Queensbury Rules - makes it illegal to butt a man.
	Season 2 / Episode 19: - Down Shadow Street Nick Barkley: What, me pick up a check for a prosperous lawyer? I wouldn't humiliate you! Jarrod Barkley: I wouldn't dream of denying you the opportunity!
	Season 2 / Episode 17: - Image of Yesterday Jarrod Barkley: I can't wait to get to Brownsville and cut some of this dust off. Nick Barkley: I figured you'd be pretty used to it. You get enough dust in all those law books of yours. Jarrod Barkley: Oh, is that so? Nick Barkley: Mm-hmm. Jarrod Barkley: Well then, brother Nick, maybe you'd like to negotiate the contract for this herd. Nick Barkley: Oh, no no no, I find my spelling pretty dusty, too.
	Season 2 / Episode 15: - Day of the Comet Eric Mercer: Rest - the universal panacea. Dr. Merar: Don't laugh at it. It is the universal panacea.
	Season 1 / Episode 28: - The Midas Man Victoria Barkley: One woman is rarely enough for a man like Scott Breckenridge. The need for conquest is too strong. They simply aren't the marrying kind.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Winner Lose All Referee: All right, all right, gentlemen, come to the center of the ring for your instructions. Now I want clean holds, no finger bendin' and both shoulders to the boards for a count of three. There'll be no thumbin', gougin', chewin' or chawin', or I'll tell your ma and she'll take a broom to the both of ya! Now lads, have a go at it and the winner buys me a beer.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Forty Rifles Nick Barkley: I've got 3000 head of cattle, 550 miles to drive in 24 days with 40 men who don't know which end of the cow to prod - and not just our cattle, Jarrod, but Carr, DeKoven, Royce and Frye's who are still biting their nails because they had to throw their cattle in with us. Nobody gets fired!
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Forty Rifles Jarrod Barkley: Nick, you just chopped his legs off at the knees. Nick Barkley: I'd have done it to you and you'd have done it to me! Jarrod Barkley: Nick, it's not the same. Nick Barkley: We're all Barkley's aren't we? Jarrod Barkley: We were born to the name, Nick, that gives us immunity.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Forty Rifles Victoria Barkley: Audra, would you get my sewing basket? There seems to be a button missing at the top of your dress.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Forty Rifles General Wallent: Every snake has two fangs.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Palms of Glory Nick Barkley: Good afternoon. Heath Barkley: Afternoon. Nick Barkley: Quite a pony you got there. Heath Barkley: Yes, he's a runner. Nick Barkley: Indian? Heath Barkley: Modoc. Nick Barkley: Well, they breed good horses up there. Heath Barkley: Except for one thing. Nick Barkley: Oh? What's that? Heath Barkley: They don't know how to back up. So, if you'll just move that crockhead off this bridge... Nick Barkley: Well, I'd gladly do that for you, boy, except for one thing. Heath Barkley: What's that? Nick Barkley: This one's a Modoc, too.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Palms of Glory Heath Barkley: English. Nick Barkley: Do tell. Heath Barkley: It can core an apple at a half a mile. Nick Barkley: On the tree or fallin'? Heath Barkley: On horseback. In a hurricane.
	Unknown Episode: Jarrod Barkley: Nick, I promise never to call you a bull in a china shop again. Nick Barkley: We get back in one piece, you can call me anything you like.
	Unknown Episode: Nick Barkley: It might do you good to eat a little dust once in awhile. Jarrod Barkley: I'm a lawyer, remember? I only eat crow.
	Unknown Episode: Heath: Now I have had me a day...!

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