Hawkeye [to Major Heyward]
Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
Most-quoted character in The Last of the Mohicans (1992): in 20 of its 33 quotes
Most scenes with: Cora Munro (7), Maj. Heyward (7), Colonel Munro (5)
No, you submit, do you hear? You be strong, you survive... You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.
More lines from Hawkeye
3 quotes Hawkeye Hawkeye I am La Longue Carabine! My death is a great honor to the Huron, take me!
Hawkeye (Kicks the rifle from Maj. Heyward's hand while he aims at a Mohawk that Chingachgook is chasing)
...In case your aim isn't any better than your judgment.
Scenes with Hawkeye
16 scenes Hawkeye My father says...
Hawkeye Chingachgook told me, "Don't try to understand them; and don't try to make them understand you. For they are a breed apart and make no sense."
Hawkeye My father's people say that at the birth of the sun and of his brother the moon, their mother died. So the sun gave to the earth her body, from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars, and the stars he threw into the night sky to remind him of her soul. So there's the Cameron's monument. My folks' too, I guess.
You are right, Mr. Poe. We do not understand what is happening here. And it's not as I imagined it would be, thinking of it in Boston and in London...
I thought all our colonial scouts were in the militia. The militia is fighting the French in the north.
Hawkeye I ain't your scout. And we sure ain't no damn militia.
You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the Crown?
Hawkeye I do not call myself subject to much at all.
There is a war on. How is it you are heading west?
Hawkeye Well, we face to the north and, real subtle like, turn left.
What are you looking at, sir?
Hawkeye I'm looking at you, miss.
[hasn't moved]
Though they are strangers, they are at least entitled to a Christian burial!
Hawkeye [shaking his head]
Let us go, miss.
I will not. I have seen the face of war before, Mr. Poe, but never war made on women and children. And almost as cruel is your indifference.
Hawkeye [Hawkeye turns back and rapidly approaches her. She takes a step back, fearful.] [contained]
Miss Munro. [pause] They are not strangers .... And they stay as they lay ...!
Jack Winthrop You're not coming with us?
Hawkeye I've got a reason to stay.
Jack Winthrop That reason wear a striped skirt and work in the surgery?
Hawkeye It does. No offense, but it's a better looking reason than you, Jack Winthrop.
They're going to hang you. Why didn't you leave when you had the chance?
Hawkeye Because what I'm interested in is right here.
Hawkeye Sorry to disappoint you.
No, on the contrary. It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been.
Hawkeye [Maj. Heyward aims a pistol at Hawkeye]
Haven't you got anything better to do on the lake today, Major?
Hawkeye [to the Hurons]
Take me!
[as he is being forced away]
I told them to take me. Take me! My compliments, sir! Take her and get out!
Duncan! Duncan, no!
[From the Director's Expanded Edition]
The frontier moves with the sun and pushes the Red Man of these wilderness forests in front of it until one day there will be nowhere left. Then our race will be no more, or be not us.
Hawkeye That is my father's sadness talking.
No, it is true. The frontier place is for people like my white son and his woman and their children. And one day there will be no more frontier. And men like you will go too, like the Mohicans. And new people will come, work, struggle. Some will make their life. But once, we were here.
Why were those people living in this defenseless place?
Hawkeye After seven years indentured service in Virginia, they headed out here 'cause the frontier's the only land available to poor people. Out here, they're beholden to none. Not living by another's leave.
Go ahead.
What the bloody hell plan is this?
I want you to go.
Hawkeye If we go, there's a chance there won't be a fight. There's no powder. If we don't go in that, there's no chance. None. Do you understand?
Coward!
You've done everything you can do. Save yourself. If the worst happens, and only one of us survives, something of the other does too.
Hawkeye No. You stay alive. If they don't kill you, they'll take you north, up to Huron land. Submit, do you hear? You're strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you!
Hawkeye I come to you unarmed and in peace to unstuff your ears, Sachem. Let the children of the dead Colonel Munro go free. Take fire out of the English anger over the murder of their helpless ones. Sachem, the French fathers made peace. Magua broke it. It is false that the French will be friends still to the Huron. Would Magua use the ways of Les Francais and the Yengeese? Would you?
Yes.
Hawkeye Would the Huron make his Algonquin brothers foolish with brandy and steal his lands to sell them for gold to the white man? Would Huron have greed for more land than a man can use? Would Huron fool Seneca into taking all the furs of all the animals of the forest for beads and strong whiskey? Those are the ways of the Yengeese and the Francais traders and their masters in Europe infected with the sickness of greed. Magua's heart is twisted. He would make himself into what twisted him. I am Nathaniel of the Yengeese. Hawkeye, adopted son of Chingachgook of the Mohican people. Let the children of the dead Munro and the Yengeese officer go free. This belt, which is a record of the days of my father's people, speaks for my truth.
