Hawkeye: No, you submit, do you hear? You be 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.
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.
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.
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.
British Officer: You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the Crown? Hawkeye: I do not call myself subject to much at all.
Cora Munro: What are you looking at, sir? Hawkeye: I'm looking at you, miss.
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.
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...
Hawkeye: [taking Duncan's gun away] In case your aim's any better than your judgment.
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.
[last lines] 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 ...
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 ...
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.
[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:...
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.
Colonel Munro: Death and honor are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
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 o...
Hawkeye: Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
