- Your Excellency, you're shooting your own men.
- What?
- You're shooting your own men!
- Here's $5. Keep it under your hat. Never mind. I'll keep it under my hat.
9 seconds sound clip from the Duck Soup (1933) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:02:07.488 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Gentlemen, this is the last straw.
- I'll show them they can't fiddle around with old Firefly.
- Look at them run. Now they know they've been in a war.
- But, sir, I've got to tell...
- Remind me to give myself the Firefly Medal for this.
- Your Excellency, you're shooting your own men.
- What?
- You're shooting your own men!
- Here's $5. Keep it under your hat. Never mind. I'll keep it under my hat.
- Now we've got to have more men or we're lost.
- Don't be alarmed, I've got a man combing the countryside for volunteers.
- Your Excellency, the army's morale is crumbling. The men are breaking ranks.
- Where's the Secretary of War?
- That's it! Where is the Secretary of War? The soldiers are waiting for his orders.
- His Excellency, the Secretary of War.
- Awfully decent of you to drop in today.
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