We are told to remember the idea and not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an idea can still change the world.
This country needs more than a building right now. It needs hope.
No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man, and what he meant to me.[last lines]
He was Edmond Dantes, and he was my father and my mother, my brother, my friend. He was you and me. He was all of us.[Eric Finch: Who was he?]
Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.[quoting her father]