The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987 TV Movie)

Raul Julia: Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana

Quotes 

• Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna : We will go home with honor or we will not go home. Understood?

  [When Black does not respond, Santa Ana snarls angrily] 

  Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna : UNDERSTOOD?

  Col. Black : Yes, excellency.

• Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna : Send her to the North with the others. I do not make war on women... and children.

  Mrs. Susannah Dickinson : [Contemptuously]  Just the freedom of your people!

• Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna : I like you English... your thoroughness... your worldliness...

  Col. Black : [Interrupting]  On behalf of my countrymen...

  Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna : [He pointedly holds up an imperious finger to silence him]  ... but I do not like your fine manners. Manners win women, not wars. Perhaps if you English had realized that, the Americans would not be a country to plague me now. Yes?

  [Black remains silent] 

• Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna : History teaches us, gentlemen, that great generals remain generals by never underestimating their opposition.