What you have done should be and I think will be an example to all our countrymen, soldier and civilian alike.

10 seconds sound clip from the The Bridge on the River Kwai movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:19:44.969 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- However, you'll be glad to know that the completion of this link in the railway will enable us to transport the sick and the disabled to the new camp by train.

- Colonel Saito has kindly permitted me to stay behind with Major Clipton and the sick men, and we'll rejoin you in a few days' time.

- Now that your work here is finished I suppose many of you feel somewhat letdown.

- That's quite understandable. It's a very natural reaction.

- But one day, in a week, a month, a year on that day when, God willing, we all return to our homes again, you're going to feel very proud of what you have achieved here in the face of great adversity.

- What you have done should be and I think will be an example to all our countrymen, soldier and civilian alike.

- You have survived with honor. That, and more.

- Here in the wilderness you have turned defeat into victory. I congratulate you.

(MEN APPLAUDING)

- To the king.

[...]

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Actors: Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson), Sessue Hayakawa (Colonel Saito), William Holden (Commander Shears), Jack Hawkins (Major Warden)

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