Robert Cosick: Everybody lies to me!


--Richard Basehart (as Robert Cosick) in Fourteen Hours

Robert Cosick: You should have ten good reasons for anything. That's a rule!


--Richard Basehart (as Robert Cosick) in Fourteen Hours

François Barras: I arrived just in time to see Danton on his way out. Exactly as you planned, wasn't it?
Maximilian Robespierre: Danton was my friend, not yours. Why should you feel badly about it?
François Barras: Because Danton was a good soldier. Without him, France would have been overrun by the armies of Europe.
Maximilian Robespierre: That was yesterday. Like all good soldiers, he outlived his usefulness.


--Richard Basehart (as Maximilian Robespierre) in Reign of Terror

François Barras: This would make you dictator of France.
Maximilian Robespierre: Yes.
François Barras: We didn't storm the Bastille to make any man dictator.
Maximilian Robespierre: I'm not "any man".


--Richard Basehart (as Maximilian Robespierre) in Reign of Terror

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Ishmael: [voiceover] Call me Ishmael.


--Richard Basehart (as Ishmael) in Moby Dick