Ron Hayes: Lincoln Vail

Quotes 

• Captain Andy Anderson : This is Anderson, Linc. I think I'd better send another man down there with you.

  Lincoln Vail : Well, I'd like to handle it alone if it's all right with you, Andy.

  Captain Andy Anderson : I don't want to lose you, Linc. You're the only man in the patrol that doesn't go nuts out from isolation out there at Lost River Station

  Lincoln Vail : Andy, if you spent 11 months in solitary north of the Yalu, you wouldn't call it isolation - you'd call it a rest cure.

• Lincoln Vail : I thought the North Koreans were tough. I think you swampies down here got 'em beat.

  Angie : Sometimes don't you wonder if the 'Glades was the right place to come for peace and quiet?

  Lincoln Vail : Angie, on its peaceful days, it's like a front row seat for the creation of the world.

  Angie : Well, it's Paradise, all right, if it weren't for the wildlife - not just our native gator hunters and moonshiners, but runaway Cubans, maybe even a New York gangster on the lam. Only a Yankee'd be fool enough to try and enforce the law in the Everglades.

  Lincoln Vail : Well, before I enforce it, I'm going to try to *suggest* it.

  Angie : To a diehard squatter like Luther Jacks? Well, I got enough work to do around here without having to worry about a Yankee dreamer with an unmentionable name like "Lincoln".

  Lincoln Vail : I'll change it to "Stonewall". Anything to please so lovely a flower of the Old South. ma'am.

  Angie : Okay, okay. We'll can that syrup and sell it at the trading post.

• Josie : He will shoot you dead. You know, I'll miss you, Mr. Linc, even if you're a Yankee from Illinois, I'll miss you as sure as I can spit.

  Lincoln Vail : Thank you, Josie, but don't hold the funeral until I get back.