Shenandoah

Jacob Anderson: They come closer everyday, pa. Charlie Anderson: They on our land? Jacob Anderson: No, sir. Charlie Anderson: Well, then, it doesn't concern us.

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Sam: I'd be eternally grateful if you'd permit me to call upon you this evening. Jennie Anderson: Eternally is a long time, Sam. Sam: Not when one carries a memory of you, Miss Jennie.

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Charlie Anderson: What about you, James? You ever think you might like to own a slave? James Anderson: Well, I guess I never thought about it, Pa. Charlie Anderson: Well, think about it! Think about it! If you had money would you go out and buy a slave? James Anderson: No sir, I wouldn't. Charlie Anderson: Why not? James Anderson: Well, if I can't do my own work with my own hands it'd never get done.

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Lt. Johnson: When are you going to take this war seriously, Anderson? Charlie Anderson: Now let me tell you something, Johnson, before you get on my wrong side. My corn I take seriously, because it's mine. And my potatoes and tomatoes and my fence I take note of because they're mine. But this war is not mine and I don't take note of it.

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Charlie Anderson: I've got five hundred acres of good, rich dirt, here, and as long as the rains come and the sun shines, it'll grow anything I have a mind to plant. And we pulled every stump, and we cleared every field, and we done it ourselves without the sweat of one slave. Lt. Johnson: So? Charlie Anderson: "So"!? So, can you give me one good reason why I should send my family, that took me a lifetime to raise, down that road like a bunch of damn fools to do somebody else's fighting? Lt. Johnson: Virginia needs all of her sons, Mr. Anderson. Charlie Anderson: That might be so, Johnson, but these are my sons! They don't belong to the state. When they were babies, I never saw the state coming around with a spare tit! We never asked anything of the state, and never expected anything. We do our own living and thanks to no man for the right. But seeing as how you're so worried about it, I'll tell ya: If any of my boys thinks this war's right, and wants to join in, he's free to do it. Yo

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Boy Anderson: What's confiscate mean, pa? Charlie Anderson: Steal!

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