Donna and Sam in “Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail”

Donna

[After Sam learns the identity of a deceased Communist spy] It was people pushing paper around fifty years ago. Why does it matter?

Sam

It was high treason, and it mattered a great deal! This country is an idea, and one that's lit the world for two centuries and treason against that idea is not just a crime against the living! This ground holds the graves of people who died for it, who gave what Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion, of fidelity.