Shenandoah (1965)

Tom Simcox: Lt. Johnson

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• Lt. Johnson : When are you going to take this war seriously, Anderson?

  Charlie Anderson : Now let me tell you something, Johnson, before you get on my wrong side. My corn I take seriously, because it's mine. And my potatoes and tomatoes and my fence I take note of because they're mine. But this war is not mine and I don't take note of it.

• Charlie Anderson : Can you give me one good reason why I should send my family, that took me a lifetime to raise, down that road like a bunch of damn fools to do somebody else's fightin'?

  Lt. Johnson : Virginia needs all of her sons, Mr. Anderson.

  Charlie Anderson : That might be so, Johnson - but these are *my* sons! They don't belong to the state. When they were babies, I never saw the state comin' around with a spare tit. We never asked anything of the state, and never expected anything. We do our own livin', and thanks to no man for the right.

• Lt. Johnson : Mr. Anderson, if you can sit in the middle of this war and not get touched, I congratulate you.

• Capt. Richards : Is that a Confederate cow or a Union cow?

  Lt. Johnson : That must be a Union cow, sir.

  Capt. Richards : Union cow's tasty?

  Lt. Johnson : Quite tasty, sir.

  Capt. Richards : Then take her prisoner...