• “Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution say, but everyone made equal.” - Captain Beatty (pg. 58)
• "We burnt copies of Dante and Swift and Marcus Aurelius." - Guy Montag (pg. 50)
• "How many copies of Shakespeare and Plato?" - Guy Montag (pg. 76)
• "We have our fingers in the dike." - Captain Beatty (pg. 62)
• “Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus, the giant wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth?” - Faber (pg. 83)
• “Drink deep, or taste not the Pieran spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” - Captain Beatty (pg. 106)
• "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.” - Old Woman (pg. 36)
• "Do I turn in Mr. Jefferson?” - Guy Montag (pg. 76)
• "Compare Winston Noble to Hubert Hoag for ten seconds and you can almost figure the results.” - Mildred Montag (pg. 97)
• "Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin? Burn it." - Captain Beatty (pg. 59)

Captain Beatty alludes to two controversial books in history.