Unhappily, lieutenant, we always have plenty of casualties but never enough nurses.
— Major Jed Webbe (Humphrey Bogart)
8 seconds sound clip from the Battle Circus (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:05:23 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Alright! Down! Hit the dirt! Down!
- What are you trying to do, win the war single-handed?
- Those men, they could have been killed.
- Unhappily, lieutenant, we always have plenty of casualties but never enough nurses.
- But a nurse's duty to a hospital is to see...
- The duty of this hospital is to save what casualties we have, not to make new ones.
[...]