If I let you take the law in your hands, it would be an admission of my guilt.
5 seconds sound clip from the The Oklahoma Kid (1939) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:57:29 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I know you mean well, but there's an issue in this town you wouldn't understand...
- I represent law and order. You don't. You never have.
- I'm not here to argue right from wrong.
- Do I have to hit you over the head or carry you over my back?
- That's the only way you'll get me to go with you, son.
- If I let you take the law in your hands, it would be an admission of my guilt.
- You see, Jim, it isn't only my freedom that I'm fighting for.
- Sheriff, the kid's got the keys. He went upstairs to the old man's cell.
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