The Last of the Mohicans Movie Quotes
Hawkeye
No! You stay alive! If they don't kill you, they'll take you north up to the Huron lands. Submit, do you hear? You're strong! You survive! You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you! No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
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Chingachgook
Great Spirit, Maker of All Life. A warrior goes to you swift and straight as an arrow shot into the sun. Welcome him and let him take his place at the council fire of my people. He is Uncas, my son. Tell them to be patient and ask death for speed; for they are all there but one - I, Chingachgook - Last of the Mohicans.
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Duncan
There is a war on. How is it you are headed west?
Hawkeye
Well, we kinda face to the north and real sudden-like turn left.
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Cora Munro
What are you looking at, sir?
Hawkeye
I'm looking at you, miss.
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Jack Winthrop
You're not coming with us?
Hawkeye
I've got a reason to stay.
Jack Winthrop
That reason wear a striped skirt and work in the surgery?
Hawkeye
It does. No offense, but it's a better looking reason than you, Jack Winthrop.
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Duncan
You are defending him because you've become infatuated with him!
Cora Munro
Duncan, you are a man with a few admirable qualities, but taken as a whole, I was wrong to have thought so highly of you.
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Hawkeye
My father's people say that at the birth of the sun and of his brother the moon, their mother died. So the sun gave to the earth her body, from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars, and the stars he threw into the night sky to remind him of her soul. So there's the Cameron's monument. My folks' too, I guess.
Cora Munro
You are right, Mr. Poe. We do not understand what is happening here. And it's not as I imagined it would be, thinking of it in Boston and in London...
Hawkeye
Sorry to disappoint you.
Cora Munro
No, on the contrary. It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been.
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[last lines]
[Director's Expanded Edition]
Chingachgook
The frontier moves with the sun and pushes the Red Man of these wilderness forests in front of it until one day there will be nowhere left. Then our race will be no more, or be not us.
Hawkeye
That is my father's sadness talking.
Chingachgook
No, it is true. The frontier place is for people like my white son and his woman and their children. And one day there will be no more frontier. And men like you will go too, like the Mohicans. And new people will come, work, struggle. Some will make their life. But once, we were here.
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British Officer
You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the Crown?
Hawkeye
I do not call myself subject to much at all.
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Cora Munro
They're going to hang you. Why didn't you leave when you had the chance?
Hawkeye
Because what I'm interested in is right here.
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Chingachgook
[speaking to animal they have just killed]
We're sorry to kill you, brother. We do honor to your courage and speed, your strength.
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Hawkeye
Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
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Maj. Duncan Heyward
I thought all our colonial scouts were in the militia. The militia is fighting the French in the north.
Hawkeye
I ain't your scout. And we sure ain't no damn militia.
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Hawkeye
My father warned me about you...
Hawkeye
Chingachgook, he warned me about people like you.
Cora Munro
Oh, he did?
Hawkeye
He said "Do not try to understand them".
Cora Munro
What?
Hawkeye
Yes, and, "do not try to make them understand you. That is because they are a breed apart and make no sense".
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Cora Munro
Why were those people living in this defenseless place?
Hawkeye
After seven years indentured service in Virginia, they headed out here 'cause the frontier's the only land available to poor people. Out here, they're beholden to none. Not living by another's leave.
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Duncan
You there, Scout! We must rest soon, the women are tired.
Magua
No, two leagues, better water. We stop there.
Duncan
No, we'll stop in the glade just ahead. When the ladies are rested, we will proceed. Do you understand?
Magua
[speaking Huron]
Magua understands that the white man is a dog to his women. When they are tired, he puts down his tomahawk to feed their laziness.
Duncan
Excuse me, what did you say?
Magua
Magua say... he understand the English very well.
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Magua
When the Grey Hair is dead, Magua will eat his heart. Before he dies, Magua will put his children under the knife, so the Grey Hair will know his seed is wiped out forever.
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Duncan
And who empowered these colonials to pass judgement on England's policies, and to come and go without so much as a "by your leave"?
Cora Munro
They do not live their lives "by your leave"! They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, bearing their children along the way!
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Cora Munro
He saved us. We're alive only because of him.
Colonel Munro
The man encouraged the colonials to desert in this very room and in my presence! Sir! He is guilty of sedition. He must be tried and hanged like any other criminal, regardless of what he did for my children.
Cora Munro
But he knew the consequences, and he stayed. Are those the actions of a criminal?
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Colonel Munro
And how am I to know it wasn't a raid by thieves?
Hawkeye
The cabin was attacked by a war party fighting with the French. They're sweeping south along the frontier attacking farms and Mohawk villages, all the men are stuck here.
Colonel Munro
I need proof more convincing than this man's opinion before I weaken the fort's defenses by releasing the militia.
Jack Winthrop
Chingachgook had the same opinion about the raid; taken together that's gospel. Your fort will stand or fall depending on Webb's reinforcements, not the presence of the Colonials.
Colonel Munro
I judge military matters here, not you.
Hawkeye
Your judgment is not more important than their right under agreement with Webb to defend their farms and families. Major Hayward was there, he was at John Cameron's, he saw what it was.
Colonel Munro
What exactly did you see Major?
Duncan
[glancing at Cora]
I saw nothing that would lead me to the conclusion that it was other than a raid by savages bent on thievery.
Hawkeye
You're a liar.
Colonel Munro
[as Duncan lunges for Hawkeye]
Major!
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Colonel Munro
Montcalm is a soldier and a gentleman, not a butcher.
Hawkeye
Easy for you to suppose, it's their women and children on the farms, not yours!
Colonel Munro
You forget yourself, sir.
Jack Winthrop
We're not forgetting Webb's promise.
Colonel Munro
British promises are honored. And the militia will not be released, because I need more definite proof than this man's word.
Jack Winthrop
Nathaniel's word's been good on the frontier a long time before you got here.
Colonel Munro
This meeting is over, the militia stays.
Jack Winthrop
Does the rule of English law no longer govern? Has it been replaced by absolutism?
Hawkeye
If English law cannot be trusted maybe these people would do better making their own peace with the French.
Duncan
That is sedition!
Hawkeye
That is the truth.
Duncan
I'll have you beaten from this fort!
Hawkeye
Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
Colonel Munro
Anyone fomenting or advocating the leaving of Fort William Henry will be hung for sedition. Anyone actually CAUGHT leaving will be shot for desertion. Now my decision is final. Get out!
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Cora Munro
You've complimented me with your persistence and patience, but the decision I've come to is this. I would rather make the gravest of mistakes than surrender my own judgment.
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Hawkeye
I'm Nathaniel of the Yengeese. Hawkeye, adopted son of Chingachgook of the Mohican people. Let the children of the dead Munro and the Yengeese officer go free. This belt which is the record of the days of my father's people speaks for my truth.
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Hawkeye
I am Le Longue Carabine! My death is a great honor to the Huron, take me!
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Cora Munro
You've done everything you can do. Save yourself! If the worst happens, and only one of us survives, something of the other does, too.
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Colonel Munro
Death and honor are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
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Cora Munro
Justice? If that's justice than the sooner French guns blow the English out of America the better it will be for the people here.
Colonel Munro
You do not know what you're saying!
Cora Munro
Yes I do, I know exactly what I'm saying! And if it is sedition, than I am guilty of sedition too.
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Gen. Webb
Explain to the Major that he has little to fear from this General Marquis de Montcalm in the first place; and, therefore, scant need of a colonial militia in the second; because, the French haven't the nature for war. Their Latinate voluptuousness combines with their Gallic laziness and the result is they'd rather eat and make love with their faces than fight.
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Cora Munro
The whole world's on fire isn't it.
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Maj. Duncan Heyward
Might I inquire after the situation sir, given that I've seen the French engineering from the ridge above.
Colonel Munro
The situation is that his guns are bigger than mine and he has more of them. We keep our heads down while his troops dig 30 yards of trench a day. When those trenches are 200 yards from the fort and within range, he'll bring in his 15-inch mortars, lob explosive rounds over our walls, and pound us to dust.
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Title Card
1757 / The American colonies. / It is the 3rd year of the war between England and France for the possession of the continent. / Three men, the last of a vanishing people, are on the frontier west of the Hudson River.
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[Duncan aims a pistol at Hawkeye]
Hawkeye
Haven't you got anything better to do on the lake today, Major?
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Hawkeye
Take me!
Cora Munro
Duncan! What are they doing to Duncan?
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Ian
What do we do about being under Crown law?
Jack Winthrop
l believe if they set aside their law as and when they wish, their law no longer has rightful authority over us. All they have over us then is tyranny. And l will not live under that yoke.
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Hawkeye
Why don't you ask him?
Uncas
Too easy to track; they'd be heard for miles. Find yourself a musket.
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Cora Munro
A breed apart, we make no sense?
Hawkeye
In your particular case, Miss, I'd make an allowance.
Cora Munro
Thank you so much.
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Hawkeye
It was a war party. That means they're going to be attacking up and down the frontier.
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Hawkeye
We just dropped in to see how you boys was doing.
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Hawkeye
Face to the north, and all of a sudden turn left.
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Hawkeye
Would the Huron make his Algonquin brothers foolish with brandy and steal his lands to sell them for gold to the white man? Would Huron have greed for more land than a man can use? Would Huron fool Seneca into taking all the furs of all the animals of the forest for beads and strong whiskey?
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Cora Munro
Our father - Did you see my father?
Hawkeye
From a distance.
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Colonel Munro
Those considerations are subordinate to the interests of the Crown.
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Cora Munro
Yes! Go ahead!
Duncan
What the bloody hell plan is this?
Cora Munro
I want you to go!
Hawkeye
If we go, there's a chance there won't be a fight. There's no powder. If we don't go in that, there's no chance. None! Do you understand?
Duncan
Coward!
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Colonial Man
Hello, boys!
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Duncan
Might l inquire after the situation, sir, given that l've seen the French engineering from the ridge above?
Colonel Munro
The situation is, his guns are bigger than mine and he has more of them. We keep our heads down while his troops dig 30 yards of trench a day. When those trenches are 200 yards from the fort and within range, he'll bring in his 15-inch mortars, lob explosive rounds over our walls and pound us to dust.
Duncan
They look to be 300 yards out. lf they're digging 30 yards a day, you have three days.
Colonel Munro
Damn. Damn.
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Colonel Munro
l have lived to see something which l never expected. A British officer afraid to support another.
Duncan
Webb can burn in hell. And we'll go back and dig our graves behind those ramparts.
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Hawkeye
Out the northern sally port. Strike for the east side of the swamp till you clear the French picket line. Head north over the ridge, then come about southeast. Fork left in Little Meadow and you're free of the outpost and skirmishes.
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Hawkeye
l am Nathaniel of the Yengeese. Hawkeye, adopted son of Chingachgook of the Mohican people.
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Sachem
The white man came and night entered our future with him. Our council has asked the question since I was a boy: What are the Huron to do?
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Hawkeye
Our only hope is that they pass us by.
Duncan
lf they do?
Hawkeye
Take the south rim down the mountain. lt's 12 miles cross country to Fort Edward.
Duncan
And if they don't?
Hawkeye
You'll just have to forego the pleasure of hanging me.
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Hawkeye
Magua's heart is twisted. He would make himself into what twisted him.
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Magua
You are women. Slaves. Dogs. I spit on you!
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Magua
Magua took the hatchet to color with blood. lt's still bright. Only when it's red, then it will be buried.
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Colonel Munro
Monsieur Le Marquis, l am a soldier, not a diplomat. You called this parley for a better reason than an exchange of compliments.
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Ongewasgone
There's too many French. And so few of us to fight. Not too many to die.
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Gen Montcalm
l cannot break the term of the surrender and sully the lilies of France.
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Cora Munro
Please take this as my final answer. It must be: no.
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Alice Munro
l shan't sleep tonight. What an adventure. Have you seen the red men?
Duncan
A few.
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Gen. Webb
The Scotsman's daughters are at the Poltroon's house. A company of the 60th will accompany you, and Magua will show you the way.
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Magua
The Grey Hair's children were under Magua's knife. They escaped. They will be under it again.
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Magua
Magua's village and lodges were burnt. Magua's children were killed by the English. l was taken as slave by the Mohawk who fought for the Grey Hair. Magua's wife believed he was dead and became the wife of another. The Grey Hair was the father of all that. ln time, Magua became blood brother to the Mohawk to become free. But always in his heart, he is Huron. And his heart will be whole again on the day the Grey Hair and all his seed are dead.
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Cora Munro
l don't know what to say, Duncan. l truly wish they did, but my feelings don't - don't go beyond friendship. Don't you see?
Duncan
Respect and friendship. lsn't that a reasonable basis for a man and a woman to be married? And all else may grow in time?
Cora Munro
Some say that's the way of it.
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