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)