- Sam Houston: Has Santa Anna been captured?
- Colonel Sherman: We are hunting him, sir.
- Sam Houston: He must be taken alive. You hear me? Without him, there's no victory. We've won nothing.
- Sam Houston: [addressing Buffalo Hump] Tell him I am the Chieftan.
- Billy Anderson: He's aware.
- Sam Houston: Good. Tell him to kill me.
- Billy Anderson: I don't think that's a good idea with me standing next to you and all.
- Sam Houston: [Houston getting closer to Buffalo Hump] Go ahead. Kill me. If you want war the likes of which Comanches have never seen. My death brings Yankee soldiers like buffalo herds. The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge!
- Billy Anderson: Shakespeare does NOT translate into Comanche.
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna: [swatting mosquitoes] If I owned both hell and Texas, I would rent Texas, and live in hell.