Nick Nolte credited as playing...
Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson: I kept having a debate between my head and my heart.
- Maria Cosway: Which in your case, the head always wins.
- Thomas Jefferson: Not this time. My poor head was simply whirled around by my unruly heart.
- Maria Cosway: Oh-dear-God.
- Thomas Jefferson: It kept telling me I love the lady and will continue to love her forever. If she were on one side of the globe and I on the other, I would pierce through the whole mass of the world to reach her.
- Thomas Jefferson: Independence is not a toy for children to play with, but the privilege of a fully matured mind.
- Thomas Jefferson: But the friendship of the shepherdesses is based on their ferocious greed. The queen's favourites take advantage of her lonely craving for affection threatening to leave her whenever she fails to accede to their insatiable demands.
- Thomas Jefferson: The best way of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves and to suffice for our own happiness.
- Maria Cosway: Nobody cares for him who cares for nobody.
- Thomas Jefferson: A wise man will only depend on himself.