Barbary Coast (1935)

Frank Craven: Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb

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• Mary 'Swan' Rutledge : Men of vision! Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure. I'm amazed at your idealism, Colonel Cobb.

  Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb : Newspaper men are either drunkards or idealist, Miss Rutledge. I'm afraid I'm both. However soiled his hands the journalist goes staggering through life with the beacon raised.

• Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb : Rome wasn't built in a day, gentleman. The paths of Empire have always started in the mud and they ended in glory.