1776 has to have the best quotes from any show in Broadway history. Here are a few more that I don't think have been mentioned:
(John Adams volunteers to visit New Brunswick after a report is given of Washington's soldiers being afflicted with venereal disease and alcoholism)
ADAMS: Wake up, Franklin, you're going to New Brunswick!
FRANKLIN: [Half asleep] Like hell I am. What for?
HOPKINS: The whoring and the drinking!
[Franklin springs up and marches off right behind Adams]
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ADAMS: You cool, considerate men. You hang to the rear on every issue so that if we should go under, you'll still remain afloat!
DICKINSON: Are you calling me a coward?
ADAMS: Yes... coward!
DICKINSON: Madman!
ADAMS: Landlord!
DICKINSON: LAWYER!
[a brawl breaks out]
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THOMPSON: [calling for a vote] Where's Rhode Island?
McNAIR: Rhode Island's out visiting the necessary.
HANCOCK: Well, after what Rhode Island has consumed, I can't say I'm surprised. We'll come back to him, Mr. Thompson.
THOMPSON: Rhode Island passes.
[Roar of laughter from the Congress]
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FRANKLIN: Revolutions come into this world like bastard children, Mr. Dickinson - half improvised and half compromised.
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FRANKLIN: If we do not hang together, we shall most assuredly hang separately!
(of course I also love the quote in my signature from
The Music Man)
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
Updated On: 2/20/06 at 10:48 AM