Best history movie quotes of all time

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Pathfinder picture

Pathfinder: You have become the Pathfinder for the Dragon People. Good.
Ghost: I'm dying.
Pathfinder: Don't complain to me about it.

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye picture

Rachel Grover: Oh, Tammy Faye. You follow blindly. In the end, all you are is blind.

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Rasputin picture

Grigori Rasputin: A morsel of bread is more precious to man than a mountain of diamonds and gold, amen.

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John Oldman: Why not pass the Buddha's teachings on in a modern form.

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Babylon picture

Extra: That's the guy they sent here to fuck us.

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Hollywoodland picture

Louis Simo: Lady, I can nail you with this.
Leonore Lemmon: D'Artagnan, you couldn't nail me with roses and a trip to Vegas.

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Thirteen Days picture

President Kennedy: Well, who the hell authorized this missile test?
Robert Kennedy: Who do you think? God knows what this is gonna communicate to the Soviets.
Kenny O'Donnell: Communicate with the Soviets? We can't communicate with the Pentagon - and it's just across the goddamn river.

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Wilfried Böse: I didn't agree to this, I'm not a Nazi.

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Carlos picture

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka 'Carlos': My name is Carlos. You may have heard of me.

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Hindenburg picture

Mrs. Channing: Sugar, next time, let's take the Titanic.

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The Killing Fields picture

Jon Swain: Look, excuse the pun, but we're either staying - or we're living.

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Rang De Basanti picture

DJ: With one leg in the past and one in the future... it's no wonder we're pissing on the present.

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Benediction picture

Glen Byam Shaw: Friends may come, friends may go. Enemies are always faithful.

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Ian McKenzie: Justice and law, Mr. Du Toit, are often just... well they're, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, well, they're simply not on speaking terms at all.

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Young African American male in Michigan: And I was watchin' TV one day, 'and they're showin' like some of the buildings and areas that had been hit by bombs and things like that, and while I watchin' I got to thinkin' like', "There's parts of Flint that look like that, and we ain't been in a war."

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Chick Gandil: You go back to Boston and turn seventy grand at the drop of a hat? I find that hard to believe.
Sport Sullivan: You say you can find seven men on the best club that ever took the field willin' to throw the World Series? I find that hard to believe.
Chick Gandil: You never played for Charlie Comiskey.

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Colonel J.S. Wilson: Why do you want to be a saboteur, Max?
Max Manus: My country was stolen from me, Sir... and I want it back.

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General Lord Chelmsford: For a savage, as for a child, chastisement is sometimes a kindness.
Sir Henry Bartle Frere: Let us hope, General, that this will be the final solution to the Zulu problem.

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The Alamo picture

General Castrillon: Our twelve pound cannon arrives tomorrow. Why sacrifice our soldiers trying to take a wall that can be demolished?
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana: General Castrillon, what are the lives of soldiers but so many chickens?

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Ending statement: Fifteen years later, the Hurons, having accepted Christianity, were routed and killed by their enemies, the Iroquois.
Ending statement: The Jesuit mission to the Hurons was abandoned and the Jesuits returned to Quebec.

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