“- Mitch Wilkinson: Your great-great granddaddy planned the assassination of President Lincoln.
- Patrick Gates: It can't be.”
Ed Harris - Mitch Wilkinson
Nicolas Cage - Ben Gates

“- Captain Monroe Kelly: They just blew up the president's car.
- Eddie Ventro: That was the president's car? Did they get him?
- Captain Monroe Kelly: That's the bad news: no, they didn't.”

Ernie Hudson - Captain Monroe Kelly
Joe Pantoliano - Eddie Ventro

“Did you know, Helen, that more books have been written about Jack the Ripper than Abraham Lincoln? It's a sick world, isn't it, Helen?”
William McNamara - Peter Foley

“- Jim Garrison: I can't believe they killed him because he wanted to change things. In our time. In our country.
- X: Well, they've been doing it all through history. Kings are killed, Mr. Garrison, politics is power, nothing more!”

Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison
Donald Sutherland - X

“This single-bullet explanation is the foundation of the Warren Commission's claim of one assassin. And once you conclude the magic bullet couldn't create all seven wounds, you must conclude there was a fourth shot and a second rifleman. And if there was a second rifleman, then by definition there had to be a conspiracy.”

Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison