I'm gonna visit those foreclosing son-of-a-guns at the Indianola Savings & Loan, slap that money on the barrelhead and buy back the family farm. You ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete's cousin turned us in for the bounty.Pete: The hell you say! Wash is kin!Washington Hogwallop: Sorry, Pete, I know we're kin, but they got this depression on. I got to do for me and mine.Pete: I'm gonna kill you, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop!
Big Dan Teague: Thank you boys for throwin' in that fricassee. I'm a man of large appetite, and even with lunch under my belt, I was feelin' a mite peckish.Ulysses Everett McGill: It's our pleasure, Big Dan.
Yessir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook us all up to the grid. Yessir, a veritable age of reason - like they had in France. And not a moment too soon...