- Joseph Goebbels: Their capitalism has produced a handful of wealthy men, and a nation of slaves who think they are free. Their Hollywood films glamorize the lifestyle of the upper few, while the rest of the country keeps fantasizing that one day, this could be them. They're too unintelligent to realize that the few pennies they are paid to break their backs will never afford them anything. A nation of imaginative, dreaming fools. Why do you defend them? The United States is falling apart. Their leaders have been waiting for this opportunity. They want a war. Do you know why? The president has led the nation into an economic catastrophe from which there is no escape. An entire generation of youths lost and jobless. The country is on the verge of revolution. So, they send their sons to be slaughtered.
- James Laughlin: America is watching. We must not sacrifice this woman, patriotism covering up a lynch mob!
- Joseph Goebbels: The spoken word is the most powerful weapon in the world. With the right words, a war can be won before the first rifle is loaded. We're here to attract people, to win them over. That is "propaganda". And it works best when those being manipulated are confident they're acting on their own free will.
- James Laughlin: We cannot let our pain for our loss, our feelings cloud our judgment. Confuse blind justice with blind vengeance.
- James Laughlin: Philosophers, psychiatrists, from Plato to Freud, tell us, "Foremost among our basic human instincts is the reflex to survive."
- James Laughlin: "Anyone who thinks, must think of entering this war as they would of suicide." Eleanor Roosevelt said that. "Never think that this war, no matter how justified, is not a crime. Never think it's not a crime." And that is Ernest Hemingway.