- Helene von Lorbeer: [undercover as Frances Hawtrey, hoping to meet Strendler] I'm so anxious to meet him, his work, his methods - a genius!
- Valdar: No! A symbol of blind duty!
- Helene von Lorbeer: Or a complete patriot?
- Valdar: Perhaps he has no soul, no conscience, nothing! He'd kill you or me - for duty!
- [last lines]
- Arthur Benneft: But, tell me, Yeats, these sacrifices we are all making - do you think they will eventually mean something to mankind?
- James Yeats: I wish I were able to answer that question. We want to help humanity. We fight wars only because we crave peace so ardently and pray that each war will be the last. But always in the strange scheme of things some maniac with a lust for power arises and, in one moment, destroys the peace and tranquility we've created through the years. We hate war! We despise it, but when war comes, we must and will fight on and on.