Patriot

Colonel William Tavington:
You know, it's dirty business doing one's duty... but just occasionally it's a real pleasure.

Benjamin Martin:
Before this war is over, I'm going to kill you.

Colonel William Tavington:
Why wait?

Charlotte:
You have done nothing to be ashamed of.

Benjamin Martin:
I have done nothing. And for that I am ashamed.

Benjamin Martin:
Aim small, miss small.

Benjamin Martin:
I'm a parent. I haven't got the luxury of principles.

Benjamin Martin:
Why should I agree to swap one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

Benjamin Martin:
I have long feared that my sins would return to haunt me, and the cost would be more than I could bear.

Nathan Martin:
Father, I killed those men.

Benjamin Martin:
It's alright, Nathan. You had no choice.

Nathan Martin:
I'm glad I killed those men. I'm glad.

Colonel William Tavington:
Let it be known if you harbor the enemy you will lose your home.

Benjamin Martin:
He cannot be held as a spy.

Colonel William Tavington:
Oh, we're not going to hold him. We're going to hang him.

General O'Hara:
My Lord, if we re-form and wheel right, we may be able to turn their flank.

Lord General Cornwallis:
You dream, General.

Colonel William Tavington:
Kill me before the war is over, will you? It appears that you are not the better man.

Benjamin Martin:
You're right. My sons were better men.

Colonel William Tavington:
Would you like a lesson, sir, in the rules of war? Or perhaps your children would?

Benjamin Martin:
Not yet... Thomas.

Thomas:
When?

Benjamin Martin:
17.

Thomas:
That's two years... it's already been two. The war could be over by then!

Benjamin Martin:
God willing.

Major Jean Villeneuve:
If I die, then I will die well dressed.

Benjamin Martin:
When you have a family of your own, you'll understand.

Gabriel Edward Martin:
When I have a family of my own, I won't hide behind it.

Gabriel Edward Martin:
I've come to call on Anne.

Gabriel Edward Martin:
I've come to call on Anne.

Mr. Howard:
Well of course you call yourself a man!

Miss Anne Howard/ Mrs. Anne Martin:
Father stop it! You heard him!

John Billings:
There's a story going around 'bout how some 20 Redcoats got killed by a ghost or some damn thing, carried a Cherokee tomahawk.

Benjamin Martin:
Aren't you a little old to be believing in ghost stories?

Susan Martin:
Papa! Papa please don't go. I say anything, just tell me what you want me to say and I'll say it. Papa please don't go!

Colonel William Tavington:
Pretty impressive for farmers with pitchforks.

Benjamin Martin:
This battle was over before it begun.

Lord General Cornwallis:
Colonel Tavington, why, after six weeks, am I still here at Middleton place attending a ball in South Carolina while I should be attending balls in NORTH CAROLINA?

Occam:
Gabriel said if we won the war, we could build a whole new world. Just figured we'd start here with your home.

Hardwick:
They hanged my brother. Every one of them redcoats deserves to die.

Colonel William Tavington:
Stupid boy.

Gabriel Edward Martin:
I'm sorry about Thomas

Benjamin Martin:
Oh, son, that wasn't your fault

Benjamin Martin:
That was mine.