Reg Rogers: John Wilkes Booth

Quotes 

• John Wilkes Booth : What state are you from?

  Andrew : I like to think that I am from the State of Grace.

• John Wilkes Booth : I'm a gentlemen; we can agree to disagree, right?

  Andrew : Yes.

  John Wilkes Booth : You can go your way, I can go mine, right?

  Andrew : Yes.

  John Wilkes Booth : So why can't the states do the same; if the South can't agree with the North, why can't we all just be gentlemen, and call it a day?

  Andrew : Because if every disagreement dissolved the union there would be no marriage. There would be no friendship. There would be, no contracts... no country. There would be nothing but anarchy. And that is where tyrants come from, sir.

• John Wilkes Booth : [to Andrew]  I believe that you are an interloper. What we refer to in the theatre as "the mysterious stranger" who enters to complicate the plot.

• John Wilkes Booth : A hundred years from now when the schoolchildren are reading about the heroes of the South, right next to Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee will be the names John Wilkes Booth and David Harold!

• John Wilkes Booth : It's amazing. The light from the fire. It, *illuminates* you. You like some sort of - *avenging angel*. It's quite theatrical, actually.

  Andrew : I am an angel, John. Sent by God.

  John Wilkes Booth : No doubt God wishes to congratulate me.

• John Wilkes Booth : You have avenged nothing. You have achieved nothing, except for the wrath of God. And even now God offers you a choice. You can choose - forgiveness, and peace. Or separation from Him, forever.

• Andrew : There's still time, John. You don't have to die alone.

  John Wilkes Booth : ...I can't.

  Soldier : Can't what?

  John Wilkes Booth : My hands.

  Soldier : What?

  John Wilkes Booth : Put them in front of my face.

  Soldier : Why?

  John Wilkes Booth : ...Please.

  Soldier : Get his hands over them.

  John Wilkes Booth : [the soldiers move his arms so he is now in a position to pray]  ... Useless. Useless.

  Soldier : What's useless?

  Andrew : No. John - it's never useless to pray but the time is now, before...

  [Booth is dead] 

  Andrew : Before it's too late.