- Court Bailiff / Mr. Robbins: [reading case docket] Vagrancy, wife beating...
- Vinnie McLeod: [interjecting] That's a newfangled sort of crime. In my day men didn't beat their wives. The wives had pistols.
- Tramp in Box Car: the poem 'The Open Road of Freedom' - There's a road that passes cities and it leaves them on the side. It goes across the mountains and it takes them in its stride. You can meet with friends along that road, but travel all alone. It's the Open Road of Freedom, where you can call your soul, your own. - composed by the character Tom Richards who is played by James Cagney, but recited to him by the box-car tramp.