- King Silas Benjamin: That laughter at my expense?
- Rev. Ephram Samuels: Merely appreciating the evening; but I can't say I support what you have done - offering away our lands?
- King Silas Benjamin: You don't support peace? After all your words, you'd rather war?
- Rev. Ephram Samuels: I'd rather an undivided nation, as planned - as *promised*.
- King Silas Benjamin: Those plans, those promises, weren't vouchsafed by treaty, by action - *I* did that. You come to my house, drink my scotch, criticize me?
- Queen Rose Benjamin: I thought we agreed to no politics.
- King Silas Benjamin: This is beyond politics. The reverend has recently made this... personal.
- Rev. Ephram Samuels: Ma'am - you have brought art to Shiloh and music to hearts. You have raised the level. *This* is why we end wars. And perhaps it's best I take my leave.
- Queen Rose Benjamin: This country was nothing before it had a king... stone age clans at war. It's why I designed every inch of this monarchy as I did - the color of the flag down to, yes, the china - so they could have something larger than life to be inspired by. Decadence, kings, huge and poreless. You think I care about ballet? They didn't wait in line to see dancing; they came to see *us*, the royal family - *we* are the performance.
- King Silas Benjamin: Things usually go well for me... of late, my plans are frustrated. I can't lose what's threatened tonight, and it hangs by threads, by minutes. What does He want from me? Why does He act my enemy? Port Prosperity - is that the cost? I'll take it back; I'll rescind the offer.
- Rev. Ephram Samuels: I can not tell you of God's mind; He shares with me at his pleasure... and on the subject of Silas, He is silent.
- King Silas Benjamin: ...I did right by him. This land was once a place where men of faith feared to walk the streets, and prayers came in whispers. *I* made it safe for men like you.
- Rev. Ephram Samuels: So God owes *you*?
- King Silas Benjamin: If not him, you. Tell me what's the fair trade.
- Rev. Ephram Samuels: One offers sacrifice according to the offense; only you can name that.
- King Silas Benjamin: Sacrifice? Has He not moved past that yet?... Give him my best; tell him I've given too much.
- Rev. Ephram Samuels: We make amends, Silas - the pure, the unblemished - for our sin.
- King Silas Benjamin: He wants what I will not let him take. I will not leave this on the altar, and live...
- Rev. Ephram Samuels: Then you find another lamb.
- King Silas Benjamin: No... not even God is that cruel.
- King Silas Benjamin: [to heaven] This what you need? Something beautiful has to die to make you happy?
- Jack Benjamin: Thing about royalty is, there's no end to what people will do to get close to you - like it'll rub off and suddenly make them less obscure. Something in the way my mom set up the monarchy... they think we're something other than human.
- David Shepherd: So they... give you things.
- Jack Benjamin: Whatever they have. The waters part, and dignity crumbles; I have a room in my apartment just for that.
- King Silas Benjamin: [rejecting Helen's touch] ... No.
- Helen: You have to go? What is it?
- King Silas Benjamin: ...The cost.