The Last of the Mohicans (1992) quotes

Director
Michael Mann.

Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis.
Madeleine Stowe.
Russell Means.

Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.

 

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!
– Hawkeye

You are defending him because you’ve become infatuated with him!
– Duncan
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.
– Cora Munro

My father warned me about you…
– Hawkeye
Your Father?
– Cora Munro
Chingachgook, he warned me about people like you.
– Hawkeye
Oh, he did?
– Cora Munro
He said “Do not try to understand them”.
– Hawkeye
What?
– Cora Munro
Yes, and, “do not try to make them understand you. That is because they are a breed apart and make no sense”.
– Hawkeye

There is a war on. How is it you are headed west?
– Duncan
Well, we kinda face to the north and real sudden-like turn left.
– Hawkeye

You’re not coming with us?
– Jack Winthrop
I’ve got a reason to stay.
– Hawkeye
That reason wear a striped skirt and work in the surgery?
– Jack Winthrop
It does. No offense, but it’s a better looking reason than you, Jack Winthrop.
– Hawkeye

They’re going to hang you. Why didn’t you leave when you had the chance?
– Cora Munro
Because what I’m interested in is right here.
– Hawkeye

Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
– Hawkeye

What are you looking at, sir?
– Cora Munro
I’m looking at you, miss.
– 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.
– Hawkeye
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…
– Cora Munro
Sorry to disappoint you.
– Hawkeye
No, on the contrary. It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been.
– Cora Munro

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”?
– Duncan
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!
– Cora Munro

I thought all our colonial scouts were in the militia. The militia is fighting the French in the north.
– Maj. Duncan Heyward
I ain’t your scout. And we sure ain’t no damn militia.
– Hawkeye

In case your aim’s any better than your judgment.
– Hawkeye

You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the Crown?
– British Officer
I do not call myself subject to much at all.
– Hawkeye

There’s too many French. And so few of us to fight. Not too many to die.
– Ongewasgone

It was a war party. That means they’re going to be attacking up and down the frontier.
– Hawkeye

Why were those people living in this defenseless place?
– Cora Munro
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.
– Hawkeye

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.
– Cora Munro

He saved us. We’re alive only because of him.
– Cora 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.
– Colonel Munro
But he knew the consequences, and he stayed. Are those the actions of a criminal?
– Cora Munro

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?
– Sachem

A breed apart, we make no sense?
– Cora Munro
In your particular case, Miss, I’d make an allowance.
– Hawkeye
Thank you so much.
– Cora Munro