Memorable Quotes from Edward Blatchford
2 quotesA Choice Between Duty and Desire
Jack Winthrop
You're not coming with us?
Hawkeye
I've got a reason to stay.
Jack Winthrop
That reason wear a striped skirt and work in the surgery?
Hawkeye
It does. No offense, but it's a better looking reason than you, Jack Winthrop.
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Conflict Over Honor and Responsibility
Colonel Munro
Montcalm is a soldier and a gentleman, not a butcher.
Hawkeye
Easy for you to suppose, it's their women and children on the farms, not yours!
Colonel Munro
You forget yourself, sir.
Jack Winthrop
We're not forgetting Webb's promise.
Colonel Munro
British promises are honored. And the militia will not be released, because I need more definite proof than this man's word.
Jack Winthrop
Nathaniel's word's been good on the frontier a long time before you got here.
Colonel Munro
This meeting is over, the militia stays.
Jack Winthrop
Does the rule of English law no longer govern? Has it been replaced by absolutism?
Hawkeye
If English law cannot be trusted maybe these people would do better making their own peace with the French.
Maj. Heyward
That is sedition!
Hawkeye
That is the truth.
Maj. Heyward
I'll have you beaten from this fort!
Hawkeye
Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
Colonel Munro
Anyone fomenting or advocating the leaving of Fort William Henry will be hung for sedition. Anyone actually CAUGHT leaving will be shot for desertion. Now my decision is final. Get out!
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