"There's nothing new in human experience, Mr. Tully. Each generation thinks it invented debauchery or suffering or rebellion, but man's every impulse and appetite from the disgusting to the sublime is on display right here all around you. So, before you dismiss something as boring or irrelevant, remember, if you truly want to understand the present or yourself, you must begin in the past. You see, history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present."

"Hardy, I have known you since you were a boy, so I think I have the requisite experience and insight to aver that you are and always have been penis cancer in human form."

"Discomfort And Joy."

"They're all alone in this together."

"You know, Mr. Kountze, for most people, life is like a henhouse ladder: shitty and short. You were born lucky. Maybe someday, you entitled little degenerates will appreciate that. If you don't, I feel sorry for you and we will have failed to do our jobs."

"I thought all of the Nazis were hiding in Argentina."

"Paul Giamatti - Paul Hunham"

"Dominic Sessa - Angus Tully"

"Richard Beymer — Rab Silsbee"

"Sebastian Cabot — Jonathan Lyte"

"Rusty Lane — Samuel Adams"

"Luana Patten — Priscilla Lapham"

"Hal Stalmaster — Johnny Tremain"

"Jeff York — James Otis"

"Walter Sande — Paul Revere"

"[to his officers] You see those campfires, gentlemen? Yesterday we ruled over Boston. Tonight we are beseiged in it. And still they come from every village and farm. Tonight 10,000. Tomorrow perhaps twice 10,000. We've experienced more than a defeat, more than a mere misfortune of war. We have been vanquished by an idea, a belief in human rights."

"Ship Captain: [During the Boston Tea Party.] Isn't it odd? These Indians seem to prefer principles to profits."

"For we must fight this war, in meeting house and Congress and the halls of Parliament, as well as on the field! But what it's all about, you'll really never know. And yet it-it it's so much simpler than any of you think. We give all we have. We fight! We die, for a simple thing. Only that a man could stand."