The Alamo (2004)

Dennis Quaid: Sam Houston

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• Sam Houston : You will remember this battle! Each minute! Each second! Until the day that you die! But that is for tomorrow, gentlemen. For today, Remember The Alamo!

• Davy Crockett : What are you sellin', Sam?

  Sam Houston : Something a certain congressman might need in the future.

  Davy Crockett : Are you sellin' rocking chairs, Sam?

  Sam Houston : I'm selling Texas.

  Davy Crockett : Now, what would I want with Norte Mexico?

• Sam Houston : [after it is proposed that Santa Anna be hanged]  No. You'll settle for blood. I want Texas.

• Sam Houston : [responding to why he is continuing to retreat]  In 1815, Napoleon escaped from Elba. He moved swiftly to consolidate before the Grand Alliance could move against him. Wellington, with fewer men, retreated ahead of Napoleon, forcing Napoleon to chase him through Belgium. Wellington had a vision of a battlefield, he did not know where it was, but he knew he would know it when he saw it. He continued moving waiting for that ground and for Napoleon to make a mistake. Gentlemen, I do not consider myself to be Wellington; Santa Ana, however, considers himself to be Napoleon - the Napoleon of the West. I will continue to retreat gentlemen, until I find the ground in my vision and, when Santa Ana makes his mistake, I will attack.

• Sam Houston : Captain Seguin, your men will remain behind to guard the camp. Things will get confusing out there with men shooting any Mexican they see.

  Juan Seguin : General Houston; you ordered me to stay here and I obeyed. This is our fight too.

  Sam Houston : Very well. Join Sherman on the left.

• Juan Seguin : [Houston is preparing to meet with the Texas Congress]  They are gonna want you humble, General.

  Sam Houston : I humble myself before God and there the list ends.

• Sam Houston : [During an argument with a political opponent]  I called him a 'catamite'; that's one step up from 'assistant pederast'!