- Van Marney: [Sculpting a bust of his father] It's amazing. When his father found the steamship company things were so simple. You hired a man, paid him what he deserved. A fair wage for a good day's work.
- Linc Hayes: The good old days, Mr. Marney?
- Van Marney: Quite. Before the day of the anarchist, the agitator. Nobody told you whom to hire, what to pay them. There was no bargaining with rabble. A man earned the dollar or he did not. Simple.
- Linc Hayes: And if there was no job he went hungry.
- Pete Cochran: Are we here to talk about business or philosophy?
- Van Marney: How does one really separate the two?
- Van Marney: I think you already know what's happening here.
- Linc Hayes: It doesn't take Einstein. A storehouse full of weapons, combat training, blue-eyed Nordic types. You're starting your own private army.
- Van Marney: Somebody has to.
- Pete Cochran: You gonna save the world, Marney?
- Van Marney: What's worth saving.
- Pete Cochran: That's Hitler's theme, a little variation.
- Van Marney: Now you're bright, very bright. Can't you see what's happening to this country? In this country?
- Linc Hayes: Yeah, loud and clear.
- Van Marney: It's strength being sapped by its lowest elements: militants, protesters, agitators, anarchists. Grisly people reducing a civilization to rubble. Sooner or later the explosion will come. They'll kill each other off.
- Pete Cochran: Somebody's got to pick up the pieces. Your little group?
- Van Marney: The Brotherhood.
- Linc Hayes: Twenty men?
- Van Marney: Twenty at a time. Trained here and sent to other parts of the country to train others. Would a membership of... ten thousand impress you?
- Linc Hayes: That's a lot of bedsheets.
- Van Marney: Oh, you're wrong. We're not anti anything. We're just pro-American. All open and above board.
- Pete Cochran: [Watching the weapons being loaded onto a truck] That's a beautiful sight.
- Julie Barnes: Even more beautiful if all those guns were just dumped into the sea.
- Capt. Adam Greer: Yeah, in about two hours, Julie. The tug's waiting. Our tug.
- Julie Barnes: Wouldn't it be nice if all the guns in the world were on board?
- Linc Hayes: Wouldn't change anything. It's not the guns; it's the people who use them.