War & Peace (TV Series)

Escape (1972)

Kevin Stoney: Marshal Benningsen

Quotes 

• Mikhail Kutuzov : We have not stopped them. Theirs is a forward momentum that cannot be stopped. They're too far from home to stop now. They can only turn back, and that they will not do.

  Marshal Benningsen : We've proved we can make them.

  Mikhail Kutuzov : You prove nothing of the kind. We have proved that we can halt them for a moment, and at what cost, and why?

  Marshal Benningsen : To defend the ancient and sacred capital of Russia.

  Mikhail Kutuzov : To defend the ancient and sacred capital of Russia. Allow me to inform Your Excellency, that phrase is without meaning.

• Marshal Benningsen : With the enemy in Moscow, the heart of our country's been cut from its body.

  Mikhail Kutuzov : Has it? Has it? I say the heart of our country at this moment is not Moscow. It is the Russian army. Lose that and you lose the heart of Russia.