Our position here is desperate.

2 seconds sound clip from the The Alamo (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:00:22.610 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Let us dispense with fire-eater's pyrotechnics, Colonel Bowie!

- Just remember this, Travis, my men are all volunteers. They're here because they wanna be. But there's nothing to keep them from packing up and getting out of here!

- I'm aware that your men are militia. And like all volunteers, undisciplined.

- Good day, Colonel Bowie.

- Last night gave you a pretty good idea of the discipline of my men.

- Our position here is desperate.

- And I feel sure that where Crockett leads, his men will follow.

- Yeah. That's a responsibility that's been kind of worrying me.

- Thank you, gentlemen. I'm going to pass the word around what you Texans use for drinking whiskey is drinking whiskey.

- And what's more important, you've got real good manners. Seeing as how you're suffering the handicap of having never been in Tennessee.

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