- Phineas Bogg: [the year is 1776] Pretty peaceful for a Revolution.
- Jeffrey Jones: Well it's gotta be here somewhere. All we gotta do is find it.
- Phineas Bogg: Yeah, well let me tell you something about Revolutions. If you stay around long enough in one place, they'll find you.
- [Phineas has shut a guard dog in an office]
- Jeffrey Jones: He's going to be really mad when he finds out you tricked him.
- Phineas Bogg: What's he gonna do about it? Slip under the door?
- [Walks away]
- Phineas Bogg: Come on.
- Jeffrey Jones: You know, I think you've got something against dogs.
- Phineas Bogg: I don't have anything against dogs. What I do have is teeth marks. Millenniums of teeth marks.
- George Washington: You know I hate boats. I'm just lucky I never joined the Navy. I get seasick.
- Phineas Bogg: Mind a bit of advice?
- George Washington: Good advice I never mind. Bad advice I tolerate.
- Phineas Bogg: Stand in the bow, uh, you get the wind in your face. Makes your stomach think it's on dry land.
- George Washington: I'll try it.
- Phineas Bogg: Okay.
- Jeffrey Jones: [on Christmas Eve 1892, Jeffrey's great-grandparents offer to take custody of him; Bogg agrees it would be best, and leaves] Bogg, what's going on? Where are you going?
- Phineas Bogg: I'm leaving.
- Jeffrey Jones: [in disbelief] Leaving? Without me?
- Phineas Bogg: Yeah, without you.
- Jeffrey Jones: But why?
- Phineas Bogg: Your great grandfather can say it a million times better than I can.
- Jeffrey Jones: [increasingly desperate] Say what?
- Phineas Bogg: That they can take care of you better than I can.
- Jeffrey Jones: [deeply hurt] There's nothing wrong with the way you take care of me.
- Phineas Bogg: Being a Voyager is no life for a kid. Greek food one day, Chinese food the next, no holidays...
- Jeffrey Jones: D'you ever hear me complaining?
- Phineas Bogg: [haltingly] Yeah. A lot. Now go back there and get warm, and happy.
- Jeffrey Jones: [furious] Bogg, stop it! What do you think you're doing?
- Phineas Bogg: What I should have done a long time ago. Giving you a home with a mother and father who love you.
- Jeffrey Jones: [pleading] But I don't want them. I want you.
- Phineas Bogg: You'll have a family.
- Jeffrey Jones: [shouting the truth] But I've already got a family! Don't you understand? It's you!