“Power is a fragile thing. It tolerates no threat. Defiance must be met with an example of the wages of defiance.”
Powers Boothe - Senator Roark

“Every soldierhopes for a major war in his lifetime. This one was mine.”
Sean Bean - Andy McNab

“- Henry Ford II: This isn't the first time Ford Motors' gone to war. We know how to do more than push papers. Go ahead, Carroll. Go to war.
- Carroll Shelby: Thank you, sir.”
Tracy Letts - Henry Ford II
Matt Damon - Carroll Shelby

“- Young Student: You can't stop it, can you? Even if you wanted to. Because it's not you, it's the system. The system won't let you stop it.
- Richard M. Nixon: There's... there's more at stake here than what you want, or what I want.
- Young Student: Then what's the point? What's the point of being President? You're powerless!”

Joanna Going - Young Student
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Parmenion: He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. He consulted his peers in council, among equals! The Macedonian way. He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires.
- Alexander: I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed! Old man, we're in knew worlds.”
John Kavanagh - Parmenion
Colin Farrell - Alexander