Now, when mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, anything built by man can be overcome.

— General George Patton (George C. Scott)

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8 seconds sound clip from the Patton (1970) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:17:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Moment like this won't come again for a thousand years, and all I need is a few miserable gallons of gasoline.

- Right now, the weak spot is here.

- In 10 days, we could be in Berlin.

- What about the fortifications at Verdun and Metz?

- Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.

- Now, when mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, anything built by man can be overcome.

- You know how I'm sure they're finished out there? The carts. They're using carts to move their wounded and their supplies.

- The carts came to me in my dream. They kept buzzing around in my head. I couldn't figure it out.

- Then I remembered. That nightmare in the snow. The endless, agonizing retreat from Moscow. How cold it was.

- They took the wounded and what was left of the supplies and threw 'em in the carts.

[...]

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