What do you want me to do? Arrest them cattle, and fine them a couple dollars apiece for trespass?
6 seconds sound clip from the The Westerner (1940) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:53:31 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- They proved up on their land, and they got deeds to it.
- When you make war on them, you're making war on their women and kids, too.
- Those people were starved out last year.
- I heard about those cattle being stampeded over their crops...
- And there's too many strays running loose in that valley right now, only they're not trays.
- What do you want me to do? Arrest them cattle, and fine them a couple dollars apiece for trespass?
- Now, look, those people don't take up much room with their little shirt-sized pieces of land.
- Why don't you be a real judge for all of the people?
- Why don't you try to see their side of it, and help them instead of fight them?
- Make peace around here instead of war.
- There's plenty of room for everybody, then everybody'd look up to you.
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