James Gregory credited as playing...
Maj. Gen. Alexander Upton Quaint
- Maj. Gen. Alexander Upton Quaint: Captain Gray, tell me, when was the last time that Fort Delivery was attacked by an unchallenged enemy at night?
- Capt. Cedric Gray MD: Sir, we've never been attacked at night.
- Maj. Gen. Alexander Upton Quaint: The opportunities for an enemy would seem to be enormous. I should think an Army outpost a hundred miles from nowhere with no sentries on duty would be as inviting to an enemy, as it is astonishing to me.
- Maj. Gen. Alexander Upton Quaint: [At West Point, recounting his pursuit of War Eagle, who crossed the river into Mexico to avoid apprehension from U.S. forces who were forbidden to cross into Mexico] And so, he crossed the Little River into Mexico, and escaped me. "Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit," which I'm sure you all remember from your Cicero. I translate it to mean, "He is gone, departed, slunk off, and gotten clean away."
- Maj. Gen. Alexander Upton Quaint: You know, Mr. Hazard, a man is not a man who would permit his people to die needlessly.
- 2nd Lt. Matthew 'Matt' Hazard: Would that be from the Latin, sir?
- Maj. Gen. Alexander Upton Quaint: No... no, that's from Alexander Upton Quaint.