The Rebel (TV Series)

Mission--Varina (1961)

Richard Gaines: Jefferson Davis

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• Jefferson Davis : Soldiering is like malaria, Sergeant, you never quite get over it.

• Johnny Yuma : You with us or against us?

  Charles Ashbaugh : Against you, summer soldier.

  Jefferson Davis : Charles! Charles! You don't know what you're doing.

  Charles Ashbaugh : Don't I, President Davis! Traitors! That's what you both are! Bootlicking Traitors! Crawling to the Yankees and dishonour and disgrace! Well, right here's where I pay back the one that disgraced us! Davis, you gonna crawl in the same place that Lincoln did!

• Johnny Yuma : We'll be at the ship by tomorrow night.

  Jefferson Davis : It's not the voyage, I mean. The vessel's that's waiting for me is a ghostly vessel and it's full with fallen comrades. But before that, I do want to see Varina again.

• Jefferson Davis : Freedom seems such an impossible dream.

• Jefferson Davis : I've been in your Vermont, Mr Gaines. The hills, green velvet in the Spring, gold in the Fall, tucked closely one behind the other, like children in school, as far as the eye can see. And the trees, magnificent trees.

  Private Gaines : You sure have been to Vermont, Mr Davis.

  Jefferson Davis : And I assume your family, everyone you love, lives there. Suppose Vermont decided to leave the Union? What would you do? Which of the two would you leave?

  Private Gaines : Well, I. You had some right hard choosing to do, Sir.

• Jefferson Davis : A man can dream big dreams under those quiet stars.

• Jefferson Davis : Coffee, black and strong.

  Sergeant Mundale : Liquid backbone.

  Jefferson Davis : I'd almost forgotten that expression, Sergeant.

  Private Gaines : You done some soldiering, Mr Davis?

  Jefferson Davis : Why, yes...

  Johnny Yuma : Graduated Westpoint 1828.