- Kurt Franken: I'm not going to let you go on working with those traitors.
- Sylvia Helmuth: Take me back and I'll do anything you want me to do. You'll only take me back.
- Kurt Franken: [quoting] What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just...
- Dr. Franken: [continuing the quote] And he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. Never forget it.
- Kurt Franken: Don't worry - I won't. I always wanted to ask you who wrote it.
- Dr. Franken: Unfortunately, one of our enemies. An Englishman - Shakespeare.
- Kurt Franken: I tell you, it would've given you the thrill of your lives to see the way we rolled over them. Denmark, Norway, Belgium, France. One after the other - like a steam roller.
- Frau Franken: Save the coffee grounds, Ella.
- Kurt Franken: The Führer is right - we have the greatest military machine ever created.
- Dr. Franken: I remember another leader who said that once.
- Kurt Franken: Ach - sour grapes, father. You lost your war - we'll win ours.
- Ella: Then we'll get back our colonies and have good coffee again.
- Kurt Franken: [reading the official telegram] 'It is our duty to inform you that your son, Carl Müller, died on the battleship Bismarck, defending his fatherland. Heil Hitler'. Well, we are at war, Herr Müller.
- Herr Müller: Yes - we are at war. But can you tell me why?
- Kurt Franken: Of course. To restore Germany's place in the world. We were a weak and despised nation before. Now everyone respects us - they are afraid of us.
- Herr Müller: [ironically] I must remember this - they are afraid of us. I'll tell my wife - it will comfort her so that she won't need any medicine to sleep. Yes - I'll put this sign over my son's grave - they are afraid of us. This will make him happy. This will take his place in all our hearts.
- Frau Franken: Herr Müller, please.
- Kurt Franken: I'm surprised at you, Herr Müller. Karl died for a great cause.
- Herr Müller: This is a great cause? I say it is a great lie!
- Kurt Franken: I won't listen to you Herr Müller. You are a traitor to your son and an enemy of the State.
- Hoffman: You don't know what they do to you. Things that men have never thought of before. A pain so great you think you will die. But nature comes to your rescue - the body becomes numb. And you don't feel their beatings anymore. They offer you bribes, promise you anything if you will just give them names and addresses. I didn't have to stay in that hell for two years. I could've told them what they wanted and gotten out. But I kept thinking - this can't last. My friends are working - throughout Germany thousands of members of the underground are working and I'm protecting them. That's what kept me alive. Then at last, something happens to your mind. You lose all power of thought, the strength of making any decision leaves you. And you're not responsible anymore. I have not betrayed you. You must believe me - you must tell the others, that the Hoffman they knew would never have betrayed you.