Memorable Quotes from Maurice Roëves
3 quotesUnderstanding Death and Honor in Conflict
Colonel Munro
Death and honor are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
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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 Has it been replaced by absolutism?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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Justice and Loyalty in Conflict
Cora Munro
He saved us. We're alive only because of him.
[about Hawkeye]
Colonel Munro
The man encouraged the colonials to desert in this very room and in my presence!
British Officer
Sir!
[hands papers to Colonel Munro]
Colonel Munro
He is guilty of sedition. He must be tried and hanged like any other criminal, regardless of what he did for my children.
Cora Munro
But he knew the consequences, and he stayed. Are those the actions of a criminal? Duncan, do something.
[to Heyward]
Maj. Heyward
He knew the penalty for his actions. He ought to pay without sending you to beg.
Cora Munro
You know he wouldn't send me. You falsely spoke of what you saw. What happened at the farm was as Nathaniel said.
Colonel Munro
But not with enough certainty to outweigh British interests in this fort.
Maj. Heyward
And who empowered these colonials to pass judgment on England's policies, and to come and go without so much as a "by your leave"?
Cora Munro
They do not live their lives "by your leave"! They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, bearing their children along the way!
Maj. Heyward
You are defending him because you've become infatuated with him!
Cora Munro
Duncan, you are a man with a few admirable qualities, but taken as a whole, I was wrong to have thought so highly of you.
Colonel Munro
Cora! Cora, I would do anything I could to keep you from being hurt. But this man is guilty of sedition... and subject to military justice and beyond pardon.
Cora Munro
Justice? If that's justice than the sooner French guns blow the English out of America the better it will be for the people here!
Colonel Munro
You do not know what you're saying, girl!
Cora Munro
Yes I do, I know exactly what what I'm saying, and if it is sedition, than I am guilty of sedition too!
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