The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna:
History teaches us, gentlemen, that great generals remain generals by never underestimating their opposition.

Col. William Barrett Travis:
What are you fighting for?

Jim Bowie:
More like the old life, I guess...like it used to be. Like it is in America where the people own the government. You see, Santa Anna, he thinks he owns the people. Now I don't like being owned. I'm kind of particular about that kind of thing.

Col. William Barrett Travis:
This is not about land or money...but the one thing that no man should never be able to take from another man: the freedom to make his own choices about his life, where he'll live, how he'll live, how he'll raise his family.

Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna:
We will go home with honor or we will not go home. Understood? [When Black does not respond, Santa Ana snarls angrily] UNDERSTOOD?

Col. Black:
Yes, excellency.

Col. William Barrett Travis:
Are you a commander or a scout?

Jim Bowie:
[Clearly annoyed at Travis] You know something, Colonel, you're gettin' to be a burr under my saddle.

Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna:
Send her to the North with the others. I do not make war on women... and children.

Mrs. Susannah Dickinson:
[Contemptuously] Just the freedom of your people!

Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna:
I like you English... your thoroughness... your worldliness...

Col. Black:
[Interrupting] On behalf of my countrymen...

Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna:
[He pointedly holds up an imperious finger to silence him]... but I do not like your fine manners. Manners win women, not wars. Perhaps if you English had realized that, the Americans would not be a country to plague me now. Yes? [Black remains silent]

Col. William Barrett Travis:
What if we fail?

Pvt. Danny Cloud:
Well, death in the cause of liberty does not make me shudder, Colonel.

Jim Bowie:
This is for Texas, boys. This is for Texas and Freedom!

Jim Bowie:
[Admiringly] Travis, you're not a tin soldier.