5:42:06
An elected legislature can trample
a man's rights as easily as a king can.
5:42:11
Captain Martin...
5:42:14
...l understood you to be a patriot.
5:42:16
If you mean by "patriot," am I angry
about taxation without representation?
5:42:20
Well, yes, I am.
5:42:22
Should the American colonies govern
themselves independently?
5:42:27
I believe they can. And they should.
5:42:31
But if you're asking me am I willing
to go to war with England...
5:42:35
...then the answer is
most definitely no.
5:42:42
This from the same Captain Benjamin
Martin whose fury was so famous...
5:42:46
...during the Wilderness campaign?
5:42:50
I was intemperate in my youth.
5:42:52
Temperance can be a disguise for fear.
5:42:54
Mr. Middleton, I fought
with Captain Martin...
5:42:57
...under Washington
in the French and lndian War.
5:43:01
There's not a man in this room...
5:43:03
...or anywhere for that matter, to whom
I would more willingly trust my life.
5:43:08
There are alternatives to war.
5:43:11
We take our case before the king.
5:43:13
-We plead with him.
-We tried.
5:43:15
Well, then, we try again and again
if necessary to avoid a war.
5:43:20
I was at Bunker Hill.
5:43:23
The British advanced three times.
5:43:25
We killed 700 at point-blank range
and still they took the ground.
5:43:29
That is the measure of their resolve.
5:43:33
If your principles dictate
independence...
5:43:36
...then war is the only way.
5:43:38
It is come to that.
5:43:40
Hear, hear.
5:43:44
I have seven children.
5:43:47
My wife is dead.
5:43:50
Now, who's to care for them
if I go to war?
5:43:55
Wars are not fought
only by childless men.
5:43:58
Granted.