- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Why do you let women to go on these convoys?
- Asher Gonen: Magda volunteered.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: She's been through enough. She just lost her husband, she's in a terrible st...
- Asher Gonen: Look, we need everyone. Especially since the British search us for weapons. Being British, they're also too polite most of the time to search a woman thoroughly.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: You're lucky you're not occupied by the French.
- Magda Simon: From now on, I'm your sister.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Hmm, that's nice. What's the attitude on incest in this country?
- Magda Simon: Very biblical. Especially since I'm also married. My husband is an officer in the Palmach... But you can try if you wish.
- Vince Talmadge: [Vince is sitting in his spotter plane with the engine running when the waiter hands him bottles of seltzer water] What's this for?
- Waiter from Tel Aviv Restaurant: A trick we learned from the Stukas in the other war. It's like a whistle. It screams on the way down.
- Vince Talmadge: That's great. That'll make two of us.
- Magda Simon: Remember, if we are stopped by a British patrol, we are off for a weekend in the country.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: And you are my sister.
- Magda Simon: Do you have good sex with your wife?
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: What goes on in that pretty head of yours?
- Magda Simon: Andre's not very good in bed.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Well, just close your eyes and tell the doctor everything.
- Gen. Mike Randolph: Did you find anything to drink around here?
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: [extends his canteen to the General]
- Gen. Mike Randolph: I don't mean water.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: I don't mean water.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Would you give up everything you love to fight an insane war for a little country that's gonna get its brains blown out in a couple of weeks?
- Maj. Safir: If it were my country.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Maybe it's yours, but... it isn't mine.
- Maj. Safir: But you are a Jew.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: I'm an American, Major. That's my religion. The last time I was in Temple I was 13 years old. I made a speech and got 42 fountain pens. I don't have to go again. I've got enough fountain pens.
- Maj. Safir: Colonel, I'm asking you, as an American. What do you say in your schools when you salute your flag? "Liberty and justice for all"? Is it only for all of you?
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Don't give me history lessons!
- Maj. Safir: Six million of our people have recently been murdered. Would you like us to try for seven?
- Emma Marcus: I was the only girl in Brooklyn who didn't get pregnant during the war.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Hm?
- Emma Marcus: My mother kept the statistics.
- Maj. Safir: Colonel Marcus?
- Bert Harrison: Merry Christmas.
- Maj. Safir: My name is Safir, and my business is private.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Bert Harrison, my law partner. Mr. Safir, who conducts his private business in Macy's window.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Suppose I go as a private citizen?
- Aide to Gen. Randolph: Then don't involve the Army in any way. Don't use your rank or even your right name.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Is it all right with you if I keep the same sex?
- Magda Simon: Michael! Michael! Oh, Mike... It's so good to see you after so long... I'm sorry. I'm very late. How are you?
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: How do I look?
- Magda Simon: Tired, like you've been making love to all the girls in America.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Eh, it's good to be back!
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: You know they have artillery. You don't even have armor.
- Ram Oren: This dynamite is our artillery, and the night is our armor.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: And the Lord is my Shepherd. but I've always thought that maybe he's their shepherd, too.
- Ram Oren: You stay.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: If so, there'll be a hell of a lot of confused sheep.
- Jacob Zion: They told you, I suppose, that I have a terrible temper.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: I served in Germany under General "blood-and-guts" Patton. You're a pussycat.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: The olive branch hasn't worked around here since Noah ran the ark into a mountain.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: You know, I'll bet if Moses came down from Mount Sinai again, the Palmach would turn down five of the Commandments just so God wouldn't get a swelled head.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: You've got no choice. Hit those tanks with everything.
- Maj. Safir: Risk the entire force?
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: They don't know it's a whole force! Go for broke. This has gotta be the biggest bluff since the invention of falsies.
- Abou Ibn Kader: Not familiar with these hills? I was having women in these hills when your father was still sucking milk.
- Gen. Mike Randolph: If I were running the Pentagon, I'd have you stood up against the wall. Instead, they'll probably pin a medal on you. Have you ever heard of the word *discipline*? A staff officer acting like a kid playing Cowboys-and-Indians is an example that could cost a hundred lives. What are you trying to prove, Marcus?
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: I wish the h__l I knew, sir.
- Abou Ibn Kader: When you were 3 years old, I was stealing cattle from your father. There was a man! A lion! He shot me twice, and we came to an agreement of gentlemen. I was a guest in your house. I held you on my knee. Twice you wet your pants and mine. You have no honor.
- Ram Oren: It was an old Bedouin friend of my father's. I thought he died long ago.
- Abou Ibn Kader: Hush, hush, I'm far from dead. You can ask that bag of fat who just danced for us.
- Emma Marcus: Next week, he's going in a convoy to Jerusalem. And he's dictating from memory every army training manual he can remember. He says they need it more than the Bible.
- Mrs. Chaison: Did he happen to mention who he's dictating the Song of Solomon to?
- Abou Ibn Kader: Who is this idiot? If one of my men talked to me like that, I would draw my knife and turn him into a eunuch.
- Jump Sergeant: What's the matter, soldier? Haven't you ever jumped before?
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: No-OOOOOOOHHHHHHHhhhhhhh!
- Gen. Mike Randolph: Give this insubordinate s_n-of-a-b___h every truck and every blanket in the Third Army. And I don't care who you have to steal them from!
- Gen. Mike Randolph: Stand up and be counted, Mickey. There's a lot of us who'll stand up with you. L'Chaim.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: Maybe you'd better stay off our side, Mike. Nobody'll ever believe it.
- Asher Gonen: We have to pretend to know everything because we know so little.
- Col. David 'Mickey' Marcus: And everything's going to be different from now on, huh?
- Asher Gonen: Of course not. We'll criticize every decision you make, but that doesn't mean we won't do it.