“An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can.”
Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin

“- Edward Wilson: I could take the government off your back if you could help us.
- Joseph Palmi: You're the guys that scare me. You're the people that make big wars.
- Edward Wilson: No, we make sure the wars are small ones, Mr. Palmi.”

Matt Damon - Edward Wilson
Joe Pesci - Joseph Palmi

“If you mean by patriot, am I angry about taxation without representation, well, yes I am. Should the American colonies govern themselves independently? I believe that they can, and they should. But if you are asking me, am I willing to go to war with England? Well, then the answer is most definately no!”
Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin

“Washington is starting from a false assumption, and looking for evidence to support it.”
Patrick Wilson - Edwin Layton

“- John Patrick Mason: All I know is that you were big in Vietnam, I saw the highlights on television.
- General Francis X. Hummel: Then you probably have no idea what it means to lead some of the finest men on God's earth into combat and then watch their memories get betrayed by their own fucking government.”
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel