Paul Frees: John Beresford Tipton

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the workshop where he observes Tipton turning a screw on an ancient wooden device. Tipton is off-camera with only his hands visible to the viewers]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Mike,

  [Chuckles] 

  John Beresford Tipton : do you know what this is?

  Michael Anthony : It's an old-fashioned pillory, isn't it, sir? The kind they used in colonial times.

  John Beresford Tipton : You know that as late as nineteen-hundred and five, people were being confined in things like this in some parts of the United States.

  Michael Anthony : I believe Delaware was the last to abolish it.

  John Beresford Tipton : Yes. All of us are confined, Mike, one way or another. By fact or by circumstance. Some of us are confined by too little money; some of us by too much.

  [Tipton hands an envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Here's our next millionaire.

  [Anthony accepts the envelope and bows]