- Dr. Alfred Nobel: You realise the implications this substance of mine holds for all mankind?
- Paladin: I'm afraid I do.
- Dr. Alfred Nobel: I have calculated that effectively placed, fewer than 500 containers of nitroglycerine could essentially destroy the entire city of London. Think of that.
- Paladin: I would prefer not to. But I can imagine what war would be like now.
- [First lines]
- Paladin: Thurber, there's enough nitroglycerine here to blow this wagon and all of us to dust. Now if you still want to steal it, go ahead.