- Whip Hoxworth: You know Wu Chow's Auntie, I'm a damned lucky man. At my age I still have a goal in life, to keep you from getting my shirt.
- Whip Hoxworth: Purity. What are you doing?
- Purity Hoxworth: Thinking back a thousand years or so. Thinking of the first canoes that came up all the way from Bora Bora. Why did our people come here, Whip?
- Whip Hoxworth: Our people? A little Hawaiian blood doesn't make us natives.
- Purity Hoxworth: It does if we want it to. There was no one here and they came thousands of miles. Who knows how many lives were lost in those little canoes. The missionaries, the whalers, the Chinese, it was easy for them. But not for our people. They were magnificent, Whip.
- Whip Hoxworth: Punti or Hakka, they're all Chinese, and they all bring the same price on the dock in Honolulu. They won't bring us a damn dime dead at sea.
- Whip Hoxworth: Damn it, Morris, I said no women on board this ship.
- Morris: She looks none the worse for it. Would you like her topside, Captain?
- Whip Hoxworth: The Carthaginian is a good ship. Maybe I can talk the old man into letting you have her - if we can keep enough Chinamen alive on this trip to turn a profit.
- Whip Hoxworth: Chinese don't buy land. Chinese take money and go back to China.
- Nyuk Tsin: I never go back!
- Whip Hoxworth: I've got something nobody else does. Artesian water and miles of land to put it on. That's got to be worth money sooner or later.
- Fredericks: Well, we can't see the "sooner" and we're not interested in the "later."
- Purity Hoxworth: Whip, we could sell the house. Yes, we could sell the house and - just live. We don't need money. We could live the way our ancestors lived.
- Whip Hoxworth: In a grass hut, on fish and poi?
- Purity Hoxworth: Yes! Listen...
- Whip Hoxworth: Purity, you didn't marry some kanaka. You married me.
- Whip Hoxworth: You did a good job nursing Noel. I've got another baby for you.
- Nyuk Tsin: What kind baby that?
- Whip Hoxworth: Pineapple. From halfway around the world, French Guiana. French are so selfish that they don't want to export any. So I had a sailor friend of mine steal this seed plant and smuggle it out.
- Whip Hoxworth: I can't understand you. How could I? You haven't let me in your bed for six months.
- Purity Hoxworth: No. Whip. Whip, please.
- Noel Hoxworth: Those aren't Chinee.
- Whip Hoxworth: Japanee. They're a lot tamer than the Chinee. Work cheaper, too.
- Whip Hoxworth: Still wanna go to sea?
- Noel Hoxworth: Yes, sir.
- Whip Hoxworth: All right. You'll go to sea. See what you'll learn there.
- Whip Hoxworth: Well, it's time for you to get along. Need anything?
- Noel Hoxworth: I don't know, Dad.
- Whip Hoxworth: Well, if you get in trouble just - you just get yourself out.
- Fumiko: Men like you have plenty woman.
- Whip Hoxworth: That's not true.
- Fumiko: Man like you does not need a Fumiko.
- Whip Hoxworth: You don't know anything about a man like me.
- Whip Hoxworth: [sitting nude in a large bath with many nude Japanese planation workers] You speakie Pidgin? No? No fellow speakie Pidgin?
- Fumiko: [descends naked into the bath] My name Fumiko. I speak.
- Whip Hoxworth: [stunned] Fumiko, you don't need to speak.
- Nyuk Tsin: Captain Hoxworth, you in trouble.
- Whip Hoxworth: You'd better get out of here or you'll be in trouble.
- Houghton: Captain Hoxworth is an American citizen, ma'am.
- Queen Liliuokalani: For far too long, the whites have claimed whatever citizenship suited them at the moment. It is particularly convenient when there happens to be two American warships in the harbor.
- Queen Liliuokalani: We are dealing with men who hope to buy a revolution. Will they be so eager when they see that they must pay for it with their lives?
- Whip Hoxworth: There's only one thing worse than a successful revolution - and that is an unsuccessful one.
- Nyuk Tsin: Now you hear me. Captain Hoxworth my friend, so his son my friend, but they white. No think like Chinee. No have five sons, one daughter, fourteen grandsons, ten granddaughters. No think about time when they be married to families that be all same one family and spread and spread forever. That what Mun Ki and I talk about on Molokai. That what make Mun Ki live forever. Hawaiian family understand, but white family, no!
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