- President Ulysses S. Grant: They hung the Fisk scandal and Black Friday around my neck. They claim I'm responsible for the Whiskey Ring Fraud, the Safe Burglary Fraud, the Sanborn frauds, the subsidiary frauds, and, the last three days, the heavy rains in California.
- Laurette Ashley: I waited. For three years, I waited. I saw you just once in all that time. And when you left you said: maybe if I can ever work things out. maybe someday. Well, Jason, a girl gets older on maybes and lonely on somedays.
- [She makes the overly tall man look ashamed]
- General Joshua McCord: I'm sick of being behind the lines while you out there where the action is going on! Gotta keep an offensive mounted, boy! The minute a man sits back and warms his heels, the minute the enemy starts creeping up on him. I can feel him sniffing around, close at hand. Listen... Do you hear anything?
- Jason McCord: Not a thing
- General Joshua McCord: That's him... that's the enemy! Time... you sit there, and he bellies up on you from behind, and then... whack!
- President Ulysses S. Grant: They tell me there's many ways of killing a man, knives, poison, explosives, trainwrecks, runaway horses, and bad cigars like this. I had four boxes of them from the Spanish ambassador, trying to butter me up so I don't recognise the revolutionists down in Cuba.
- Jason McCord: Sir, is there someone with a special reason to assassinate you?
- President Ulysses S. Grant: Someone. Everyone.
- President Ulysses S. Grant: I'll brief the troops. You see to the ammunition.
- General Joshua McCord: Don't go pulling rank on me. You're retired, same as I am.
- Socorro Cueverra: Allow us to join you please. Whatever you will be for, I will be against.
- Jason McCord: Well, we were discussing the Black Hills question.
- Socorro Cueverra: Good, I'm against it.
- President Ulysses S. Grant: And, McCord, it wouldn't hurt to talk and act anti-Grant. It's the popular thing. And you've got as good a reason as any man to hate the Army and, indirectly, me. It's good to know there's a man who hates me that I can trust.