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Don't know if there's any truth at all to the following, but I like the scene.
Benjamin Franklin Gates: A toast? Yeah. To high treason. That's what these men were committing when they signed the Declaration. Had we lost the war, they would have been hanged, beheaded, drawn and quartered, and-Oh! Oh, my personal favorite-and had their entrails cut out and BURNED!
[brief pause]
Benjamin Franklin Gates: So...
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"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
-- Friedrich Schiller
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