The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Leo McKern: Benter

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• Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy : We must declare war on the United States.

  Benter : But we can never win such a war!

  Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy : Of course not, but we could win the peace. I've given this a lot of thought gentlemen and I'm perfectly positive that I am right. You must remember, the Americans are a very strange people. Whereas other countries rarely forgive anything, the Americans forgive anything. There isn't a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the United States and to be defeated.

• Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy : I move we declare war on the United States of America.

  Benter : As leader of the party of the common man, I say that war is reprehensible, barbaric, unforgivable, and unthinkable. And I second the motion.

• Benter : Stay away from...

• Benter : My friend, the die is cast.

  Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy : But our cause is just.

  Benter : There is a time in time.

  Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy : To be or not to be.

  Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy : That is the question. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

  Benter : Our country, right or wrong.

  Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy : Right. We'll drink to that. To our glorious - defeat.

• Tully Bascombe : I don't like to leave the forest, just now. It's the mating season.

  Benter : Tully! This thing is bigger than the mating season. This is your country calling!

• Benter : We have no army?

  Prime Minister Count Rupert of Mountjoy : Oh, pish posh! Who needs an army. Twenty men or so would be quite sufficient.