They Came to Cordura (1959)

Gary Cooper: Major Thomas Thorn

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• Major Thomas Thorn : Did you ever see the Medal of Honor?

  Private Renziehausen : No, Sir.

  Major Thomas Thorn : It's the most beautiful decoration of all, as it should be. I'd trade an ear for one any time, two in fact.

  Private Renziehausen : Excuse me, Sir, but I'd rather have the ear.

• Adelaide Geary : Heroes? Saints living in the desert? My God, they tried to rape me! And blackmail you! It's a wonder they haven't shot you already! No, Thorne, they're only men - and damned poor specimens at that!

  Major Thomas Thorn : I have less right than any man on earth to judge them.

  Adelaide Geary : Or to judge yourself either.

  Major Thomas Thorn : [pauses]  You may be right, what you say. They're human beings. But they're more than that. They have one thing in them that is a miracle and a mystery. It redeems them. They don't know what it is themselves, but they have it. I have to save it.

  Adelaide Geary : You really believe this?

  [he nods] 

  Adelaide Geary : If you do, Thorn, if you do... you may be worth all of them.

• Major Thomas Thorn : [to Adelaide]  Lady, you're definitely too logical for a woman.

• Major Thomas Thorn : I became two men. One can't stand living in the same skin with the other.

• Major Thomas Thorn : If there's one piece of truth in your insect soul, I want it!