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Pages upon pages of quotes in IMDb on account of the film's age and popularity. Here is one of the numerous: [on the anti-slavery clause] Thomas Jefferson: I have already resolved to release my slaves. Edward Rutledge: Oh. Then I'm sorry, for you've also resolved the ruination of your own personal economy. John Adams: Economy. Always economy. There's more to this than a filthy purse-string, Rutledge! It is an offense against man and God! Hopkins: It's a stinking business, Mr. Rutledge, a stinking business! Edward Rutledge: Is it really now, Mr. Hopkins? Then what's that I smell floating down from the North? Could it be the aroma of hy-pocrisy? For who holds the other end of that filthy purse-string, Mr. Adams? Our northern brethren are feeling a bit tender toward our black slaves. They don't keep slaves! Oh, no. But they are willing to be considerable carriers of slaves to others. They're willin'! For the shillin'. Or haven't you heard, Mr. Adams? Clink, clink.