Amsterdam Vallon – Character Quotes

— Oh, mighty Lord you are the dagger in my hand.
— Guide my hand on this day of vengeance.
— We give thanks to the Lord... for He is good.
— With you, the swift cannot flee.
— Nor the strong escape.
— Let my sword devour, till its thirst is quenched with blood and my enemy sleeps forever.
— For you and the God of retribution.
— For the Lord crushes the wicked.
— The Lord is merciful.
— And his love endures forever.
— Amen.

— That man was right born for this.
— He's killed 44 men and laid low a couple of hundred more.
— Is that right?
— Right.
— I should have run him for mayor!

That night the Reformers held a dance. That was the Five Points alright... hangings in the morning, a dance in the evening.

When you kill a king, you don't stab him in the dark. You kill him where the whole court can watch him die.

— What happens at the finish?
— Then we have ourselves a rowdy dow! Ain't you never been to a theatre before?

My father told me we was all born of blood and tribulation. And so then too, was our great city. But for those of us who lived and died in them furious days it was like everything we knew was mildly swept away. And no matter what they did to build this city up again for the rest of time would be like no one ever knew we were here!