Your Excellency, our men are being badly beaten in open warfare. I suggest we dig trenches.
4 seconds sound clip from the Duck Soup (1933) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:00:49.254 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Clear all wires. The enemy has captured Hill 27 and 28. Throwing 13 hillbillies out of work.
- Your Excellency, our men are being badly beaten in open warfare. I suggest we dig trenches.
- Wait a minute, get them this high and our soldiers won't need any pants.
- Wait a minute, get them this high and we won't need any soldiers.
- Chicolini, your partner's deserted us, but I'm still counting on you.
- There's a machine gun nest near Hill 28. I want it cleaned out.
- All right, I'll tell the janitor.
- Message from the front, sir.
- Oh, I'm sick of messages from the front. Don't we ever get a message from the side?
[...]