- Terrence Meyers: Inspector Brackenreid, despite your opinions to the contrary, the Americans are an important, if somewhat unruly, ally of ours.
- Constable George Crabtree: Imagine one day they will make a telephone so small that you could carry it around with you.
- Constable Henry Higgins: It would never work. You'd be dragging wires all over town and trip the horses.
- Allen Clegg: What good are words when they fall on deaf ears? Sometimes raw power is the only thing people will listen to.
- Detective William Murdoch: And sometimes violence only serves to obscure the message.
- Emma Goldman: And who are you, sir?
- Detective William Murdoch: Another admirer, Miss Goldman.
- Allen Clegg: He was at the rally. He and his friend were almost arrested. They needed help.
- Emma Goldman: [to Murdoch] And what do you think?
- Detective William Murdoch: Words are the only weapons that matter.
- Reginald Pierce: [to Murdoch] Are you a pacifist?
- Detective William Murdoch: Well, I won't strike first, but I'll certainly strike back.
- Chief Constable Giles: I hear you've released Wallace.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Bloody communist. I don't fancy feeding him any more free lunches.
- [last lines]
- Allen Clegg: It'll be a damn long time before you see an American president on foreign soil. We'll keep our own safe, thank you
- Detective William Murdoch: It's my feeling you make your own problems.
- Allen Clegg: We're God's own country. And we'll take our own counsel.
- Terrence Meyers: Gentlemen, whatever the reason for the attack, it is our duty to eliminate this scourge. It is our Prime Minister's opinion that the Anarchist movement is a threat to peace, order and good government.