John Sheridan quotes from Babylon 5

Bester

Is that it? It looks like Hell.

Sheridan

That's about right.

John Sheridan

Commander! Did you threaten to grab this man by the collar and threaten to throw him out an airlock?

Susan Ivanova

[chagrined] Yes, I did.

Sheridan

I'm shocked! Shocked and dismayed.

Sheridan

May I remind you that we are short on supplies here? We can't afford to take perfectly good clothing and throw it out into space! Always take the jacket off first--I've told you that before!

Sheridan

Sorry. She meant to say, "stripped naked and thrown out of an airlock". I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

Londo Mollari

When I said my quarters were cold, I did not mean, 'Oh, I think it's a little chilly in here, perhaps I'll throw a blanket on the bed.' No, I said it was cold, as in 'Oh, my left arm has snapped off like an icicle and shattered on the floor!' This is highly inappropriate, Captain!

Sheridan

[smirking] You're right. There are several other parts of your body I'd much rather see snapped off.

John Sheridan

What the...?

Susan Ivanova

Don't. Even. Ask.

Susan Ivanova

Speaking of which, as of now I'm relieving you of command.

John Sheridan

[slightly amused] Ivanova, your sense of humor has always been on the edge of good taste, but—

Ivanova

I'm serious, John.

Sheridan

[defensively] On what grounds?

Ivanova

You haven't taken any personal time in over nine months. And in that time we have broken away from Earth, fought a war, you have been declared dead at least once, and you know how tiring that can be.

Sheridan

There isn't much chance of me winning this argument, is there?

Ivanova

None whatsoever. I never give up when I'm right. Your only option is to surrender.

Sheridan

Who taught you to negotiate like that?

Ivanova

You did.

Sheridan

[impressed and defeated] Oh. Well, then I assume this enforced vacation is to begin immediately.

Ivanova

Started when I walked in that door.

John Sheridan

You have a face people trust.

Susan Ivanova

I'd rather have a face people fear.

Sheridan

That too.

Sheridan

Why not come up with a way to turn the war room into...I don't know...The Voice of the Resistance! Susan, during World War II, the French Resistance used to go on the air for one hour a night, always from a different location, broadcasting the real news about the war. Providing intelligence for the resistance fighters, encouraging Germans to defect. Well, why can't we do the same thing here?

Ivanova

Why do I get the ugly suspicion that you're volunteering me for this job?

Sheridan

I accept your offer!

John Sheridan

Can't you send out Lennier? It might be dangerous.

Delenn

[smiles in amusement] John! It pleases me that you care for what I have become. [seriously] But never forget who I was, what I am, and what I can do.

Sheridan

I can't confirm that.

But you're not denying it either.

Sheridan

But not denying it doesn't make it true any more than not confirming it makes it false. - Are you with me so far?

I'm not sure.

Sheridan

Ambassador, there are so many things in the universe that are and so many things that aren't. If I were to take the time to deny all the things that aren't, we'd be here for centuries, wouldn't we?

John Sheridan

This madness has gone on long enough. I don't care if we're not ready. I don't care if we're outnumbered and outgunned. I don't care what ISN says about us. This stops, and it stops now! Now if Earth wants to declare war on us, then it is time we took that war to Clark. You tell the others. Starting right now, we fight back and we fight back hard!

Susan Ivanova

I thought you were looking for some other way than firing at our own ships. They were following orders.

Sheridan

Any crew that executes an order like that is guilty of war crimes, and they deserve whatever they get. No, we're riding in, Susan. Anybody who wants to defect and join us? Fine. If they get in our way, we will knock them down. If they kill one of our ships, we'll kill three of theirs. And we keep going. We never slow down, and we won't stop. We're going after the colonies, then Mars, then Earth…and God help anybody who gets in our way.

John Sheridan

The hostiles might be splitting up so they can be with both groups, to keep them in line.

Marcus Cole

Unless they're all hostile, and some are just more hostile than others.

Sheridan

Thank you for the ray of sunshine, Marcus. Next time I feel the need to be depressed, I'll remember to give you a call.

John Sheridan

You know, it's funny, I was thinking about what you said, that the preeminent truth of our age is that you cannot fight the system. But if, as you say, the truth is fluid, that the truth is subjective, then maybe you can fight the system. As long as just one person refuses to be broken, refuses to bow down.

But can you win?

John Sheridan

Every time I say "no."

John Sheridan

[over radio] We need you, Delenn.

Delenn

[commanding the League's fleet] We are there.

John Sheridan

...and I was wondering if they will remember us in hundred years from now or a thousand. And I figure probably not.

Delenn

But it does not matter. We did what we did because it was right and not to be remembered. And history will attend to itself. It always does.

G'Kar

Do you want to be President?

John Sheridan

Yes.

G'Kar

Put your hand on the book and say "I do."

Sheridan

I do.

G'Kar

Good. Done. Let's eat.