"You think surrendering, and offering you…" — King Bradley Quote

"Maybe life has no equal trade, maybe you can give up all you got, and get nothing back. Even if I can't prove it's true, I have to try, for your sake, Al."

— Edward Elric · Fullmetal Alchemist

"Ed believes he saved that town, it's one of the first successes he's had. I'll let him keep thinking that for a while. He'll learn the truth soon enough: we always do."

— Roy Mustang · Fullmetal Alchemist

"I think you've got me all wrong. My motives aren't so sophisticated as "revenge" or "honor" or any of that... The reason I killed all of those men... was because I could. It's that simple."

— Solf J. Kimblee · Fullmetal Alchemist

"Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country, is considered a radical, by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster."

— Roy Mustang · Fullmetal Alchemist

"Alchemy: The science of understanding the structure of matter, breaking it down, then reconstructing it as something else. It can even make gold from lead. But alchemy is a science, so it must follow the natural laws: To create, something of equal value must be lost. This is the principle of Equivalent Exchange. But on that night, I learned the value of some things can't be measured on a simple scale. My brother and I knew the laws of science, of Equivalent Exchange, that gain required sacrifice, that something had to be taken from us. But we thought there was nothing more we could lose. We were wrong."

— Edward Elric · Fullmetal Alchemist

"A king is no king without his people. But people without a king are lost as well!"

— Lan Fan · Fullmetal Alchemist