"I'm gonna tell you something, Flaca, and I want you to listen tight. May sound like I'm talkin' about me. But I'm not. I'm talkin' about you. As a matter of fact, I'm talkin' about all people everywhere. When I come down here to Texas, I was lookin' for somethin'. I didn't know what. Seems like you added up my life and I spent it all either stompin' other men or, in some cases, gettin' stomped. Had me some money and had me some medals. But none of it seemed a lifetime worth of the pain of the mother that bore me. It was like I was empty. Well, I'm not empty anymore. That's what's important, to feel useful in this old world, to hit a lick against what's wrong, or to say a word for what's right even though you get walloped for saying that word. Now I may sound like a Bible beater yelling up a revival at a river crossing camp meeting, but that don't change the truth none. There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat."

"I'd hate to say anything good about that long-winded jackanapes, but he does know the short way to start a war."

"Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. 'Republic' is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. 'Republic' is one of those words."

"Travis, I've never been able to like you. But you are one of the very few men I would trust with the life of Texas."

"Richard Widmark - Col. Jim Bowie"

"Olive Carey - Mrs. Dennison"

"Hank Worden - Parson"

"Ruben Padilla - Generalissimo Antonio Miguel Lopez de Santa Anna"

"Aissa Wayne - Lisa Dickinson"

"Richard Boone - General Sam Houston"

"Veda Ann Borg - Blind Nell Robertson"

"John Dierkes - Jocko Robertson"

"Denver Pyle - Thimblerig"

"Joseph Calleia - Juan Seguin"

"Ken Curtis - Capt. Almeron Dickinson"

"Chill Wills - Beekeeper"

"Carlos Arruza - Lt. Reyes"

"Jester Hairston - Jethro"

"Joan O'Brien - Mrs. Sue Dickinson"

"Your presence here is a crime, a foreign occupation. You tell me what I'm supposed to do as a democrat. Turn the other cheek for another 700 years? Is that it?"

"Strange creatures we are, even to ourselves."

"The Treaty does not express the will of the people, but the fear of the people."

"Seán McGinley – Father Denis"

"Kevin O'Brien – Tim"

"I tried not to get into this war, and couldn't. Now I try to get out, and can't."

"Máirtín de Cógáin – Sean"

"William Ruane – Johnny Gogan"

"[to Sinead, about Chris] We buried him in this chapel in the mountains. And I went down and... and I told his mother. His mother, who has cooked meals for me and her son. And when I told her she... she just looked at me. and then she went in and she put on her shoes. Then she came out and she said, "Take me to my child." And we walked for six hours and she didn't say one word. Then we got to the chapel. [sighs] And I showed her the grave. And I'd put a... cross and some flowers on it. And she turned to me and she said, "I never want to see your face again." [sighs] I've crossed the line now, Sinead."

"It's easy to know what you are against, but quite another to know what you are for."

"Fiona Lawton – Lily"

"Roger Allam – Sir John Hamilton"

"John Crean – Chris Reilly"

"Martin Lucey – Congo"

"Damien Kearney – Finbar"

"Mary Murphy – Bernadette"

"Mary O'Riordan – Peggy"

"Frank Bourke – Leo"

"Myles Horgan – Rory"

"Pádraic Delaney – Teddy O'Donovan"

"Liam Cunningham – Dan"

"Cillian Murphy – Damien O'Donovan"

"Orla Fitzgerald – Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin"

"If we ratify this treaty, all we're changing is the accents of the powerful and the colour of the flag."

"Laurence Barry – Micheál Ó Súilleabháin"

"Shane Casey – Kevin"

"[The IRA have just destroyed a Black-and-Tan mechanised infantry patrol] Mercenaries! That were paid to come over here to make us crawl, and to wipe us out. We've just sent a message to the British cabinet that will echo and reverberate around the world! If they bring their savagery over here, we will meet it with a savagery of our own!"

"Jeffrey DeMunn - USN admiral and military adviser of US president, callsign Harpoon"