“You have a right to have an ideal. Oh, I guess we all have one.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“You wanna be honest, don't you? You don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell

“You'd try to kill the John Doe movement if you can't use it to get what you want? That certainly is a new low. I guess I've seen everything now... you think of deliberately killing an idea that's made millions of people a little bit happier.”

Gary Cooper - John Doe

“I don't approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They're the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“You're gonna do great things, Franklin. This place has identity now, a purpose.”
Tim Blake Nelson - Tom Loyless