"Something strange is happening in the town of Stepford. Where the men spend their nights doing something secret. And every woman acts like every man's dream of the "perfect" wife. Where a young woman watches the dream become a nightmare. And sees the nightmare engulf her best friend. And realizes that any moment, any second - her turn is coming."

"A very modern suspense story from the author of Rosemary's Baby."

"Something strange is happening in the town of Stepford."

"[after being stabbed] Joanna! How could you do a thing like that? When I was just going to give you coffee! When I was just going to give you coffee! How could you do a thing like that? I thought we were friends! I thought we were friends... I thought we were friends..."

"I just don't get it. It's like there's this contest, okay? And the housewife with the cleanest house gets Robert Redford for Christmas... but nobody will tell the rules!"

"I'm also an ex-Gothamite, who's been living here in Ajax country for just over a month now, and I'm going crazy. You see doctor, my problem is that given complete freedom of choice, I don't WANT to squeeze the goddamn Charmin!"

"If I were to apologize for every time I got smashed, I'd spend my life wandering around saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry"."

"I can't just call him up and say, "I used be called Joanna Ingalls. You deflowered me ten years ago. Would you test my water?""

"If I am wrong, I'm insane... but if I'm right, it's even worse than if I was wrong."

"I'm going to get me a bottle of tequila and find me one of them Keno girls that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and just kinda kick back."

"Okay, I respect your position. I don't understand it, but I respect it. A lot of famous people hated publicity: Albert Schweizer. Franco... Albert Schweizer."

"Michael Higgins - Mr. Cornell"

"The Declaration will be a triumph, a triumph I say. (pauses) And if it isn't, we still have 4 days to think of something else."

"Charles Rule as Joseph Hewes (NC)"

"Rex Robbins as Roger Sherman (CT)"

"John Myhers as Robert Livingston (NY)"

"James Noble as Reverend John Witherspoon (NJ)"

"Jonathan Moore as Lyman Hall (GA)"

"Stephen Nathan as Courier"

"Leo Leyden as George Read (DE)"

"Daniel Keyes as Josiah Bartlett (NH)"

"William Duell as Andrew McNair"

"Patrick Hines as Samuel Chase (MD)"

"Howard Caine as Lewis Morris (NY)"

"Ralston Hill as Secretary Charles Thomson"

"Emory Bass as James Wilson (PA)"

"Virginia Vestoff as Abigail Adams"

"Blythe Danner as Martha Jefferson"

"William Hansen as Caesar Rodney (DE)"

"Ray Middleton as Thomas McKean (DE)"

"Ron Holgate as Richard Henry Lee (VA)"

"David Ford as John Hancock (MA)"

"Roy Poole as Stephen Hopkins (RI)"

"John Cullum as Edward Rutledge (SC)"

"Donald Madden as John Dickinson (PA)"

"Ken Howard as Thomas Jefferson (VA)"

"Howard Da Silva as Dr. Benjamin Franklin (PA)"

"William Daniels as John Adams (MA)"

"Continental Congress: (in unison) Oh for God sake's, John, SIT DOWN!!!"

"Richard Henry Lee: Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."

"John Dickinson: (after John Hancock calls for all members of the Congress to sign the Declaration of Independence) I'm sorry, Mr. President. I cannot, in good conscience, sign such a document. I will never stop hoping for our eventual reconciliation with England. But because, in my own way, I regard American no less than does Mr. Adams, I will join the army, and fight in her defense. Even though I believe that fight to be hopeless. Goodbye gentlemen."