- Jaap van Leyden: The truth is that a Nation will only live as long as it has people ready to die.
- [spoken and diary entry]
- von Schiffer: You know, you would have made a thundering fine German, van Leyden.
- Jaap van Leyden: Surely that can't have been meant as a compliment!
- Admiral: I'm surprised to see such modern methods.
- Jaap van Leyden: We've gone past the stage of windmills, Admiral.
- Janni Peters: If you don't want to eat, Father, you might remember there's some that do. Now don't talk about your big ideas - they're not things you can get your teeth into. You've got to work.
- Bastiaan Peters: Not for the Nazis, Janni. You know my reasons.
- Janni Peters: You know mine. There they are
- [indicates the children]
- Janni Peters: . All three of them.
- Bastiaan Peters: Food bought that way would choke them.
- Schoolmistress: Piet Hein was a very little man. Not much bigger than some of you. but when our country's in danger, it doesn't count how big we are. What counts is to love our country and be brave, and no matter what happens, you must never never give up. Piet Hein never gave up either, and in the end he captured the Silver Fleet!
- Old lady: If you're a wise girl, you'll let Quislings shift for themselves. Tell her to go to the Nazis - they won't let her starve.