Elsie Stoneman: [Ben is to be hanged. Elsie has an idea] We will ask mercy from the Great Heart.

- Lillian Gish (as Elsie Stoneman) in The Birth of a Nation (1915)

John Wilkes Booth: Sic semper tyrannis!

- Raoul Walsh (as John Wilkes Booth) in The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Flora Cameron: [letter to Ben] - and you have really grown a moustache - oh my! I'm just dying, dying to see you. Well, I'm growing up too - they say I'm such a big girl now you wouldn't know me. XXXXXX Kisses Your little
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Flora Cameron: big Sis

- Mae Marsh (as Flora Cameron) in The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Flora Cameron: [to Gus] Stay away or I'll jump!

- Mae Marsh (as Flora Cameron) in The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Col. Ben Cameron: [to Elsie, whose portrait he has been carrying] Though we had never met, I have carried you about with me for a long, long time.

- Henry B. Walthall (as Col. Ben Cameron) in The Birth of a Nation (1915)