- General Clinton: I pray that on the march to New York, Washington attacks us. I'll turn on him and crush him in one blow. Then let the French try to save him.
- Gen. George Washington: I want Arnold. I'll hang that traitor if it's the last thing I do on God's earth.
- Eban Krutch: You reenlisted?
- Colonel Joseph Reed: A few months of good food, warm bed and warm wife was all I could stand. I had get back to the hunger and misery brigade so I could have something to complain about again.
- [addressing a meeting of mutiny-minded soldiers]
- Gen. George Washington: Gentlemen, you'll permit me to put on my spectacles, as I have grown not only grey but also blind in the service of my country.
- Gen. George Washington: No punishment is too great for the man who builds his fortune on his country's ruin.
- Baron Von Steuben: [to Continental Soldier] Chest in! Chest in, gut out!
- [to Hamilton]
- Baron Von Steuben: What is wrong here?
- Alexander Hamilton: You've got it backwards, Baron, it's "chest out, gut in."
- Baron Von Steuben: Oh, gut in, not out. Like Von Steuben!
- [laughs]
- George Mason: You can't ignore history, George!
- Gen. George Washington: Oh, by God I can! If only it would ignore me.
- [Eban moves to reenlist]
- Colonel Joseph Reed: Have you lost your senses? You've done more then your bloody share!
- Eban Krutch: [of Washington] What if everybody quits him? What if he quits us?
- St. Pierre: This is how it begins. We are striking the first blows in this very room. Major, you and I will be starting a war.
- Eban Krutch: Sir, this weather will wet the men's powder. Our muskets won't fire.
- John Laurens: Then you must use your bayonets, sergeant. Trenton must be taken.
- Knox: If this attack fails, and we're trapped in Jersey, it's all over.
- Gen. George Washington: It's all over in any event if we don't try.
- [in front of a row of huge cannons]
- Gen. George Washington: Gentlemen, let's bid general Howe good morning.