Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

Franklin Pangborn: Reception Committee Chairman

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Quotes 

• 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."

• [after nothing has gone right] 

  Committee Chairman : Oh death where is thy sting?