“America is a war and you are on the other side. How's a black man ever going to get a fair trial with the enemy on the bench and in the jury box? My life in white hands? You Jake, that's how. You are my secret weapon because you are one of the bad guys.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“They outrageous, them rules. Who live in this cider house? Who grindin' up those apples, pressin' that cider, cleanin' up all this mess? Who just plain live here, just breathin' in that vinegar? Someone who don't live here made those rules. Those rules ain't for us. We are supposed to make our own rules. And we do. Every single day.”

Delroy Lindo - Mr. Rose

“How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men are inferior, endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot, red blood!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“It takes all kinds of people to make a world!”
Adolphe Menjou - Anthony Powell

“- Patrick Hale: Mr. President, according to the law, we're supposed to be equal.
- President Lockwood: We are, only some of us are more equal than others. George Orwell.”
Sir Sean Connery - Patrick Hale
George Grizzard - President Lockwood