- Barry Kane: You can't get away with this, Tobin! Even if I don't stop you, there will be others that will. A man like you can't last in a country like this.
- Charles Tobin: Very pretty speech - youthful, passionate, idealistic. You see I've already sent for the police.
- Barry Kane: You can't bluff me. You're hooked and you know it.
- Charles Tobin: Must I remind you that *you* are the fugitive from justice and not I. I'm a promient citizen, widely respected. You are an obscure young workman, wanted for the committing of an extremely unpopular crime. Now which of us do you think the police will believe?
- Charles Tobin: Power, yes... I want that as much as you want your job, or that girl. We all have different tastes as you can see, only I'm willing to back my tastes with the necessary force.
- Mac, Truck Driver: I've been thinkin' for long time I'm gonna get out of this truckin' game.
- Barry Kane: Why don't you?
- Mac, Truck Driver: One of my neighbors told my wife it's stylish to eat three meals a day.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: [kissing on the dance floor] I'm afraid we're not behaving very well.
- Barry Kane: What's the difference, we weren't invited anyway.
- [another long kiss]
- [to Patricia as they dance at a party full of Nazi sympathizers]
- Barry Kane: Right now, they're probably haggling over the price for us with Murder, Incorporated.
- Bones - Circus Troupe: Thank heaven we're still members of a democracy. We'll put the matter to a vote.
- Midget - Circus Troupe: No! I'm against voting!
- Bones - Circus Troupe: Fascists!
- Charles Tobin: You're one of the ardent believers - a good American. Oh, there are millions like you. People who play along, without asking questions. I hate to use the word stupid, but it seems to be the only one that applies. The great masses, the moron millions. Well, there are a few of us unwilling to troop along... a few of us who are clever enough to see that there's much more to be done than just live small complacent lives, a few of us in america who desire a more profitable type of government. When you think about it, Mr. Kane, the competence of totalitarian nations is much higher than ours. They get things done.
- [Philip, a blind man, explains to Patricia why he believes Barry is innocent]
- Phillip Martin: You know I can see a great deal farther than you can? I can see intangible things. For example, innocence.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: Barry, why couldn't I have met you a hundred years ago? On a beach somewhere?
- Barry Kane: Bathing suits looked awfully funny a hundred years ago. I bet you'd look beautiful though.
- Frank Fry: I don't like autumn.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: You're not being very nice to a lonely girl. You look as though you might be lonely too.
- Frank Fry: I got to catch that boat.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: 15 minutes shouldn't make such a big difference Mr. Fry.
- Charles Tobin: You must watch yourself, Mr Kane. I'm telling you this for your own benefit, but you have the makings of an outstanding bore.
- Charles Tobin: You seem to have a soft spot for that young lady. You can't afford to make yourself that vulnerable, not when you're out - trying to save your country.
- Barry Kane: Why is it that you sneer every time you refer to this country? You've done pretty well here. I don't get it.
- Mr. Freeman: The most important thing is to make sure of everyone around us.
- Charles Tobin: Mr. Kane?
- Mr. Freeman: I'm just not sure. I want to know that he's all right.
- Charles Tobin: All right? What an understatement. He's much more than that! He's noble and fine and pure... So he pays the penalty that the noble and the fine and the pure must pay in this world: he's misjudged by everyone.
- Barry Kane: Pat, this moment belongs to me. No matter what happens, they can never take it away from me.
- [another dancer cuts in and dances off with Pat]
- Bones - Circus Troupe: Esmeralda! Everywhere you search for sex. Get your eyes out of the mud and look up at the stars.
- Barry Kane: A man named Fry drops a wallet in California and we wind up here, you and me. That's the only good part. I'm with you.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: I wish it was somewhere else - the North Pole - I wouldn't care.
- Barry Kane: We might wind up there too, chasing Fry over an old glacier.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: Fry. He seems so small now. I'd forgotten about him.
- Charles Tobin: I can assure you that contrary to what is supposed and to what he may himself have told you, that young man is certainly not one of his country's enemies.
- Mrs. Sutton: Charles, you're joking!
- Charles Tobin: I mean exactly what I say. Mr. Kane is definitely no part of our little organization.
- Patricia (Pat) Martin: If it had been any other sort of crime, if a man had stolen because he was starving, even if a man had committed murder to defend himself, maybe I wouldn't tell the police. But there's only one reason why men commit sabotage, and that's worse than murder.
- Barry Kane: [after recognizing Mr. Martin is blind] You live here alone, do you, sir?
- Phillip Martin: Yes. Except I really don't think of it in that way. You see, sounds are my lights and my colors. My music, for example. I compose a little. And there's nobody to tell me that the results are anything but brilliant, so I live in a comfortable glow of self-appreciation.
- Barry Kane: I don't have any car. You might say I'm - traveling by thumb.
- Phillip Martin: By thumb?
- Barry Kane: Yeah, I'm a hitchhiker.
- Phillip Martin: Oh, I see. I've always thought that that was the best way to learn about this country and the surest test of the American heart.
- Barry Kane: I used to play the triangle in our high school band. Of course, that was a long time ago.
- Phillip Martin: Oh, that's too bad. It's unfortunate when you let yourself get out of practice on the triangle. The piano is a boon to me. The piano can't know that you're blind, so it doesn't embarrass you by trying to make things easier for you. It does you the compliment to trust you.
- Charles Tobin: I'm leaving for the Caribbean now. My position here is more impossible than all of yours. I'm rather looking forward to Central America. Havana will be very gay this season. Somehow I've suddenly had enough of this country. The war has made it grim.
- Charles Tobin: I am a refugee. I have at last joined that revolting group of world travellers. One ultimately turns into the thing one despises most.
- Midget - Circus Troupe: I've been looking at something - something pretty fine too. I've been looking at that little girl there - standing right beside that poor young man. Never a word. Never a question. Taking everything he's had to take, stringing along with him, whatever happens. And I've been thinking, it's the *good* people that stick when anybody's in trouble, and there aren't many good people in the world. I think that we, all of us, know that better than most. And, well, it isn't something you see every day of the week.
- Mrs. Moore - Neighbor: [handing Barry a bottle of brandy] I wouldn't give her too much of that, if I were you; because, it very often makes people loopy.
- Mac, Truck Driver: I didn't see it happen. I never see anything happen. I don't even hear about anything, except when my wife tells me what she sees in the movie pictures. That's the way she spends the money: movie pictures and new hats. Buys a hat so she can put it on and goes to the picture show so she can take it off.
- Barry Kane: Tough job, driving a truck.
- Mac, Truck Driver: Got any other hot news tonight?
- Barry Kane: I guess I never realized how tough it was before.
- Mac, Truck Driver: The tough part, you can take that. It's the monotony that gets ya.
- Barry Kane: Just because he's got a big ranch and a fancy pool and a lovely house doesn't mean he's a nice guy.
- Barry Kane: Drop me in the middle of town when we get there.
- Mac, Truck Driver: Listen, the minute you get to Springville, you're in the middle of the town. And the next minute, the place is a memory. Whole town isn't a city block long.
- Radio Broadcaster: Los Angeles: The fire in the Stewart Aircraft Works, in which one man was killed and many injured and half a million dollars worth of damage caused, has been definitely set down to sabotage.
- Phillip Martin: I'm not at all convinced that he's guilty.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: Uncle Philip, it's your duty as an American citizen.
- Phillip Martin: It is my duty as an American citizen to believe a man innocent until he's been proved guilty. Pat, don't tell me about my duty. It makes you sound so stuffy. Besides, I had my own ideas about my duties as a citizen. They sometimes involve disregarding the law.
- Phillip Martin: My dear, the police are always on the alarmist side.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: But they said this man is really dangerous.
- Phillip Martin: I'm sure they did. How could they be heroes if he were harmless?
- Barry Kane: There's only one thing I want to warn you about: snakes. There are a lot of them out here. Of course, there's only five or six poisonous kinds; but, there are a lot of long, squirmy, slippery, slimy ones.
- Bones - Circus Troupe: Are you girls not speaking to each other again?
- Siamese Twin: Marigold's mad because I got her beau away from her back in the last county we played.
- Siamese Twin: Kindly tell Minnie that I heard that last remark. That I wouldn't have the gentleman in question as a gift. Nothing but a common *novelty* seeker.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: They made me so ashamed. They were so nice and trusting. They're wonderful people, all except that nasty little Major and the mean Twin. I don't suppose you can really blame the Fat Lady though, when a woman has lost her figure that way.
- Neilson: You got it easy, you guys from back East. You give orders. You do that, alright. The big boys with the desk jobs. All you gotta do is reach for a telephone, sit back, and us guys out here have gotta take the rap. You know, I think I'll go back East and work for awhile.
- Mr. Freeman: Sometimes I wish my younger child had been a girl. In fact, my wife and I argue over a little idiosyncrasy I have. I don't want his hair cut short until he's much older. Do you think it'd be bad for him?
- Barry Kane: I don't know, it might be.
- Mr. Freeman: When I was a child, I had long golden curls. People used to stop to admire me. Things are different nowadays. A haircut might save him a lot of grief.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: What are you doing here? It's rather a long story, Mr Fry. It all started with an unknown blonde, an aircraft worker at a factory in Glendale, California.
- Frank Fry: I get it. Little Miss Liberty, carrying the torch.
- Frank Fry: Who are ya? Come on. Quit stalling. Who are ya?
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: I think I told you. A working girl on her day off.
- Patricia "Pat" Martin: They're so smart. That's what frightens me.
- Barry Kane: Yeah, they're smart, that's because they're ruthless. It's easy to win when you forget about the rules.
- Barry Kane: You really hate all people. Let me tell you something. The last four or five days I've learned a lot. I've met guys like you, and I've met others - people that are helpful and eager to do the right thing; people that get a kick out of helping each other fight the bad guys. Love and hate. The world's choosing up sides. I know who I'm with! There are a lot of people on my side. Millions of us in every country. And we're not soft; we're plenty strong. And we'll fight standing up on our two feet, and we'll win. Remember that, Mr Tobin. We'll win, no matter what you guys do. We'll win if it takes from now until the cows come home!
- Bones - Circus Troupe: Ah, stowaways. In the middle of this desert sea, we acquire two more vagabonds. Bedouins like ourselves, eh, Esmeralda?
- Lorelei - Circus Troupe: Why, they're just a couple of kids.
- Barry Kane: [with Pat] Uh - our car broke down way back, and we've walked for miles. We saw your bus and hopped on. We didn't want to wake you at this hour.
- Midget - Circus Troupe: Broke down, eh? We didn't pass no wrecks on the highway. The whole thing sounds like a pack of lies.
- Barry Kane: You - you see we were off on a side road.
- Lorelei - Circus Troupe: I know. A moonlight night and a parked car. That's nice.
- Mac, Truck Driver: Hey, buddy. Hold the wheel a while, will you - while I animate this thing? I'm a nicotine addict.
- [lights his cigarette]