“- Barney Cousins: You don't care if she's alive or dead anymore.
- Jeff Harriman: Yes, I do.
- Barney Cousins: No, you don't. You're just scared that without the search you won't know who you are. Who is Jeff Harriman, if he's not the guy looking for Diane? Can you really walk away from finally knowing the answer?”
Jeff Bridges - Barney Cousins
Kiefer Sutherland - Jeff Harriman

“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

“Bobby, you gotta go in there and you gotta make them understand... that we have to have an answer tomorrow... because Monday, we go to war.”
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy

“- Nurse Angela: There's nothing wrong with your heart.
- Nurse Edna: Dr. Larch wanted to keep you out of the war. That's why he told you it was yours.
- Nurse Angela: He was worried about his own heart. He said it would never stand up to Homer Wells going off to war.”

Kathy Baker - Nurse Angela
Jane Alexander - Nurse Edna

“What's a war for, if not to hold on to what we love?”
Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss