Gabriel Edward Martin Quotes in The Patriot (2000)

Gabriel Edward Martin: [shouting] I'm not a child.

Benjamin Martin: [shouting] You're my child.

Colonel William Tavington: [after reading the dispatching note] Who carried this?

[pause]

Colonel William Tavington: Hmm?

[Tavington looks up; Gabrielle looks away as Benjamin turns his head towards him, looking worried]

Colonel William Tavington: [yells] WHO CARRIED THIS?

Gabriel Edward Martin: [emerges from in front of the house] I did, Sir!

[he walks towards Tavington]

Gabriel Edward Martin: I was wounded and these people gave me care. They have nothing to do with the dispatchers.

[Benjamin walks up behind Gabriel]

Colonel William Tavington: [Tavington nods and gives the note to one his men] Take this one to Camden. He is a spy; hang him, put his body on display...

Benjamin Martin: [as Tavington's men move to grab Gabriel, Martin quickly intervenes] He's a dispatch rider and that's a marked case!

Colonel William Tavington: [ignores Benjamin] Destroy the livestock. Set fire to the house and barns.

Benjamin Martin: No! Colonel, he's a uniformed dispatcher, he's a carrying a marked case. He cannot be held as a spy...

Colonel William Tavington: [smirks] Oh no, we're not going to hold him. We're going to hang him!

Benjamin Martin: [as Gabriel is grabbed again] Colonel!

Gabriel Edward Martin: [whispers] Father!

Colonel William Tavington: Oh, I see. He's your son...

[pause]

Colonel William Tavington: Then perhaps you should have told him the rules of loyalty.

Gabriel Edward Martin: I've come to call on Anne.

[Anne's father puts an ear piece in his ear to hear. Gabriel leans in and tries again louder]

Gabriel Edward Martin: I've come to call on Anne.

Mr. Howard: Well of course you call yourself a man!

Miss Anne Howard/ Mrs. Anne Martin: Father stop it! You heard him!

Benjamin Martin: When you have a family of your own, perhaps you'll understand.

Gabriel Edward Martin: When I have a family of my own, I won't hide behind them.

Miss Anne Howard/ Mrs. Anne Martin: You know who I am, Gabriel Martin. The last time you saw me I was 11 and you put ink in my tea.

Gabriel Edward Martin: Oh, I believe that was one of my younger brothers, perhaps Samuel or Nathan.

Miss Anne Howard/ Mrs. Anne Martin: It was you. And it turned my teeth black for a month.

Gabriel Edward Martin: I'm sorry about Thomas

Benjamin Martin: Oh, son, that wasn't your fault

[pause]

Benjamin Martin: That was mine.

Gabriel Edward Martin: [as he is lying there wounded, and sees his father appear] Father...

Benjamin Martin: Shh... don't talk, don't talk.

Gabriel Edward Martin: [gasps for air, groans] Father. I'm sorry...

Benjamin Martin: Ssh, be quiet. I'm going to take care of you. You're going to be all right.

Gabriel Edward Martin: Pa. I'm sorry about Thomas.

Benjamin Martin: Oh son, that wasn't your fault.

[Gabriel lets out a soft groan]

Benjamin Martin: That was mine.

[Gabriel gasps for final breaths of air]

Benjamin Martin: Hold on, you're gonna be all right... Don't go. Gabriel, don't...

[Ben sobs quietly while touching his son's face]

Benjamin Martin: [cries and whispers] Oh! God help me. God help me.

Gabriel Edward Martin: [to Benjamin] Thomas was my brother, as well as your son. You may not believe this, but I want satisfaction as much as you do, but not at the expense of our cause. There will be a time for revenge. But until then, stay the course.