DICKINSON: Don’t forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
Peter Stone (1930-2003) American writer for theater, television, movies
1776 (play, 1969) [with Sherman Edwards]
Quotations by:
Stone, Peter
DICKINSON: Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Lee, Mr. Hopkins, Dr. Franklin, why have you joined this — incendiary little man, this BOSTON radical? This demagogue, this MADMAN?
ADAMS: Are you calling me a madman, you, you — you FRIBBLE!
FRANKLIN: Easy, John.
ADAMS: You cool, considerate men — you hang to the rear on every issue so that if we should go under, you’ll still remain afloat!
DICKINSON: Are you calling me a coward?
ADAMS: Yes — coward!
DICKINSON: Madman!
ADAMS: Landlord!
DICKINSON: LAWYER!
[A brawl breaks out]
Peter Stone (1930-2003) American writer for theater, television, movies
1776, play (1969) [with Sherman Edwards]
ADAMS: This is a revolution, dammit! We’re going to have to offend SOMEbody!
Peter Stone (1930-2003) American writer for theater, television, movies
1776, with Sherman Edwards (play 1969)
ADAMS [praying to God in song]:
A little flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere,
Or a cataclysmic earthquake, I’d accept with some despair.
But no, you send us Congress! Good God, sir, was that fair?Peter Stone (1930-2003) American writer for theater, television, movies
1776, with Sherman Edwards (play 1969)
HOPKINS: In all my years, I never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be talked about.
Peter Stone (1930-2003) American writer for theater, television, movies
1776, with Sherman Edwards (play, 1969)