Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Franklin Pangborn: Reception Committee Chairman
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Quotes
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Judge Dennis : [the crowd has re-gathered at the train station to see Woodrwow] Naturally the nomination went back to Doc Bissell. But he got up and said...
Mr. Schultz : "Ladies and gents..."
Doc Bissell : Don't mis-quote me.
Judge Dennis : What?
Doc Bissell : I said, "ladies and gentlemen."
Committee Chairman : Of course you did.
Doc Bissell : I said, "Ladies and gentlemen, in all the years that I have been unsuccessfully mixed into politics, this is the first and only time that I have ever seen a candidate for office - given an opportunity to prove publicly, permanently and beyond peradventure of doubt that he was honest, courageous and veracious..."
Judge Dennis : That means truthful. He likes those big words.
Doc Bissell : I said, further, "that if to act out a little lie to save one's mother humiliation was a fault - in other words, if tenderness toward and consideration of one's mother was a fault - it was a fault any man might be proud of."
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[after nothing has gone right]
Committee Chairman : Oh death where is thy sting?