Door number one, you go to prison for a very long time. Door number two, we are going to get back the Declaration of Independence, you help us find it, and you still go to prison for a very long time, but you feel better inside.
Riley Poole
Justin Bartha · 35 quotes
Benjamin Franklin Gates
Nicolas Cage · 33 quotes
Abigail Chase
Diane Kruger · 15 quotes
Agent Sadusky
Harvey Keitel · 7 quotes
Patrick Gates
Jon Voight · 7 quotes
Shaw
David Dayan Fisher · 6 quotes
Most scenes together: Benjamin Franklin Gates & Riley Poole (15), Benjamin Franklin Gates & Abigail Chase (10), Riley Poole & Abigail Chase (6)
National Treasure quotes
Page 4 of 5Either way we're still gonna die.
He's got the bloody map.
I am so getting fired for this!
I'm gonna steal it. [pause] I'm gonna steal The Declaration of Independence.
If there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
If you wanted to leave me behind, you shouldn't have told me where you were going.
It's a big blue-ish green man... with a strange-looking goatee... I'm guessing that's significant. [hugs the statue]
Leave them! Let them go. We got it.
Look... Stairs.
Of all the ideas that became the United States, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security."
Okay, Ben, pay attention. I've brought you to the Library of Congress. Why? Because it's the biggest library in the world. Over 20 million books. And they're all saying the same exact thing: Listen to Riley.
Our evil plan is working.
Sadusky, I'm still not against you. But I found door #3, and I'm taking it. [jumps into the Hudson River]
Someone's got to go to prison, Ben.