"Well, you gotta live no matter what happens."
After Dallas tells Ringo that both of her parents died when she was younger, he sympathizes with her, acknowledging that that kind of loss is especially hard on a girl. She responds with this line, which suggests that people have to keep living no matter what happens. This shows that Dallas is determined to be resilient and to get through hard times no matter what. She has been toughened by a difficult life, and will be able to keep going and getting through adversity through her own strength of character.
"I can find another wife easy, but not a horse like that."
This is a comic line uttered by Chris, the proprietor at Apache Wells. He seems very upset about the fact that his wife ran away with some of his horses and guns. When the other characters try to comfort him, he assures them that he is not worried about finding another wife, but he is upset about losing his horse. The joke here is that Chris views his wife as a replaceable piece of property, while he feels a more personal affinity and thus more poignant loss in regards to the horse.
"Look, Miss Dallas. You got no folks... neither have I. And, well, maybe I'm takin' a lot for granted, but... I watched you with that baby—that other woman's baby. You looked... well, well I still got a ranch across the border. There's a nice place—a real nice place... trees... grass... water. There's a cabin half built. A man could live there... and a woman. Will you go?"
This is Ringo's proposal to Dallas. Seeing that she is unattached and all alone in the world, he invites her to come and live with him at his ranch across the border. There they can live a quiet and peaceful life far from the badgering eye of society. Ringo is a bit bashful and awkward in his invitation, but his words are heartfelt and earnest. He acknowledges that seeing Dallas holding a baby is part of what has motivated him to invite her to marry him, suggesting that he wants to have children with Dallas.
"I can't get over the impertinence of that young lieutenant. I'll make it warm for that shake-tail! I'll report him to Washington—we pay taxes to the government and what do we get? Not even protection from the army! I don't know what the government is coming to. Instead of protecting businessmen, it pokes its nose into business! Why, they're even talking now about having bank examiners. As if we bankers don't know how to run our own banks! Why, at home I have a letter from a popinjay official saying they were going to inspect my books. I have a slogan that should be blazoned on every newspaper in this country: America for the Americans! The government must not interfere with business! Reduce taxes! Our national debt is something shocking. Over one billion dollars a year! What this country needs is a businessman for president!"
Gatewood, the corrupt banker, goes on this tirade on the stagecoach, outspoken in his conviction that the country is being run poorly and that the government doesn't look out for businessmen nearly enough. He ends his indignant speech with the assertion that the president ought to be a businessman, who can look out for Americans. Meanwhile, he has thousands in embezzled funds in his bag. This line amplifies the hypocrisy of Gatewood, a society man who isn't as respectable as he seems—and enthusiastically purports—to be.
"Hey, Curley, do you think I oughta charge Mrs. Mallory's baby half fare?"
The affable but dim-witted driver, Buck, says this to Curley after Lucy has her baby on the journey. It is an absurd statement, as the baby is only an infant and was delivered while on the road. It would be outrageous for Lucy to be expected to pay a fare for carrying her baby in the stagecoach, especially on what has been such an unconventional journey. This line shows how silly and lacking in common sense Buck really is.
"You wouldn't understand, cowboy. You've never seen an angel, nor a gentle woman, nor a great lady."
Hatfield, the gambler and former Confederate soldier, says this to a fellow card-shark in Tonto before deciding to join the stagecoach himself. It reveals his appreciation and admiration for Lucy, as well as his snobbishness and self-aggrandizement. He implies that he appreciates Lucy's beauty, fragility, and sophistication more because he is of a higher station than a cowboy.
"Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week."
Ringo says this as they sit down to a meal at their first stop along the journey. He refers to the snobbishness of some of the other passengers towards him and Dallas, and suggests that his bad reputation is due to the fact that he recently broke out of prison, and that that sullies other people's perception of him. With this line, he alludes to the fact that society people are judgmental of those they perceive to be less respectable. He resigns himself to this fact.
"Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization."
Doc Boone says this to Curley as the two men watch Ringo and Dallas drive away to Ringo's ranch at the end of the film. With this line, Boone implies that people who are shackled to society life, such as him and Curley, are imprisoned by the pressure to comply with the laws of civilization. By saying that Ringo and Dallas are "saved," Boone suggests that they are being spared from the judgments of other people and finally allowed to live out their lives in exactly the way they want. Dallas has been judged for her less than reputable habits in Tonto and cast out of society, and Ringo has been cast out by his reputation as an outlaw. While this might seem like an exclusion, Boone suggests that it is a blessing in disguise: the permission to live life freely, spared from the judgment of groups like the Law and Order League.
"Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from."
Ringo says this in reference to his compulsion to avenge his brother and father's death in a shootout with the Plummer brothers. His need to kill the men who have wronged him is something "a man just can't run away from." With this simple line, Ringo suggests that he has no choice but to pursue revenge.
"There would be a lot more peace in this territory if that Luke Plummer had so many holes in him he couldn't hold his liquor."
Here, Buck talks candidly to Curley about the bad blood between Luke Plummer and the Ringo Kid. Even though Curley has arrested Ringo, Buck suggested that he would be smart to let Ringo have a shootout with the Plummer brothers. His reason: Luke is such a vicious criminal that Ringo killing him would be a good thing and would create a lot more peace in the territory. This foreshadows the shootout and suggests that even if Ringo has a bad reputation, he is a good man, while Luke Plummer is all bad, one mean criminal.
