William Campbell Quotes in The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)

William Campbell: What do we tell the Johnny Rebs when they ask who we are and where we're from?

James J. Andrews: Tell them you're Kentuckians escaping the rule of the Yankees to join a Southern Regiment. If they press you closely, tell 'em you hail from Fleming County, Kentucky. I'm from Flemingsburg myself. No man from that county has ever joined the Southern army... As for you, Mr. Buffum, it might be wiser if you didn't speak at all. I never met a Kentuckian so plainly from Massachusetts.

William Campbell: Do we have to be better Southerners than the Johnny Rebs themselves?

James J. Andrews: I went through pretty far tonight. Let me tell you this: If you can't drink their toasts and sing their songs, love Jeff Davis and hate Abe Lincoln by next Friday, you'll never reach Marietta.

Raider: [the Raiders had successfully stolen the General] We're through playing Rebs, we're Yankees again!

Robert Buffum: I can talk! I can open my mouth!

William Campbell: Go ahead.