Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion - Episode Quotes

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	Unknown Episode: Lt. Marchet: Is this the right time of year for a mirage, Captain? Capt. Michael Gallant: Any time's the right time, Lieutenant.
	Unknown Episode: Lt. Marchet: They're taking their time! Capt. Michael Gallant: I'm willing to give them as much time as they want.
	Unknown Episode: Shargue: My personal ambitions are my heart's secrets, but; my promises are witnessed by Allah.
	Unknown Episode: Dr. Nabjabib: He lives. Shargue: Yes... but not for long. Dr. Nabjabib: You will kill him? Shargue: No... you will!
	Unknown Episode: Krivitch: Five hundred thousand fracs - quite a bundle, eh, Paymaster Sgt. Zachariades? Payroll Sgt. Zach Zachariades: Quite a bundle, Mr. Krivitch - that is, for one man. Manuel Gonzales: But when you divide it into 500 Legionnaire pay envelopes, it comes to not such a rich man. Payroll Sgt. Zach Zachariades: Not enough for a Legionaire to get married, is it Gonzales? Not enough even for a Spaniard like you.
	Unknown Episode: Krivitch: Gonzales, after you've been in business counting large sums of money that aren't yours as long as me and the sergeant, you'll begin to lose sight that it has value. You'll get no more thrill out of handling it the would counting, say, leaves of lettuce.
	Unknown Episode: Payroll Sgt. Zach Zachariades: A legionnaire in love is, how you say, like a starving man looking in the window of a delicatessen store. He cannot touch what he's crazy to have.
	Unknown Episode: Manuel Gonzales: What have I to cheer up about? Franca: Because you have me if nothing else. Manuel Gonzales: Is it that love is supposed to make a man happy? Franca: Well, doesn't it? Manuel Gonzales: In my country, it makes a man to be fierce, to be jealous, to want to swim miles out to sea and never come back. Franca: I don't like your country. In my country, to be in love is to be gay!
	Unknown Episode: Cuffy Sanders: What happened to Gonzales? Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: Love. Eight days in the stockade because Sgt. Zachariades was making goo goo eyes at Franca.
	Unknown Episode: Cuffy Sanders: Love is mush. Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: Love is a lot of things. Cuffy Sanders: Love ought to be abolished! Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: I'm afraid there wouldn't be much left.
	Unknown Episode: The Colonel: Gentlemen, the Legion does not allow its disciplinary action to be taken by the elements of the desert or unfriendly Arabs.
	Unknown Episode: Franca: They say he stole money so we could run away and get married. Well, I'm still here and *not* married! He wouldn't desert; he wouldn't run away without me.
	Unknown Episode: Cuffy Sanders: I still say love's mush.
	Unknown Episode: Cuffy Sanders: Come on, Kedrey, put it right here. Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: That's it, put it right here! Oh boy, oh boy! Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: That's it. That's a beautiful curve, Kedrey! Cuffy Sanders: Aw, the sun got in my eyes. Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: I don't see how it did - you had 'em closed.
	Unknown Episode: Aunt Ogdell Drexel: Are you Captain Gallant? Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: No ma'am. I'm Legionnaire Fuzzy Knight, First Class Private, ma'am. Aunt Ogdell Drexel: Oh. Is that what French Legionnaires do - play with children? Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: No, we have military duties once in a while, too, ma'am. Right now, Captain Gallant has assigned me to keep an eye on the boy. Aunt Ogdell Drexel: Hmm. You're not a very impressive governess, are you?
	Unknown Episode: The Colonel: Do you think you're doing the right thing, Mrs. Drexel? Aunt Ogdell Drexel: I'll answer your question with another. Do you think a legion post is a wise place to raise a boy?
	Unknown Episode: Capt. Michael Gallant: I don't question the legality of the papers... Aunt Ogdell Drexel: But...? Capt. Michael Gallant: I do question your moral position.
	Unknown Episode: Cuffy Sanders: It isn't fair! Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: What's not fair? Cuffy Sanders: The Captain promised me he'd take me back to America for Christmas, where there's snow and where it's cold. Pvt. Fuzzy Knight: Yeah, I know, and the Colonel promised the Captain he could go, 'cause the General promised the Colonel, but somebody higher than the general changed the general's mind; down through the chain of command came a big, fat, round, "No!" My boy, you're in the army, you know.
	Unknown Episode: Capt. Michael Gallant: Christmas is a lot more than gifts, Cuffy. Cuffy Sanders: I know. It's turkey and snow and Christmas trees. Capt. Michael Gallant: It's a lot more than that. It's peace in the hearts of men of good will everywhere. It's love for your fellow man.
	Unknown Episode: Capt. Michael Gallant: Right now, there are a dozen men out there in the desert. They're not spending a comfortable Christmas Eve in their barracks - they're out in the dark and the cold. Do you know why, Cuffy? Cuffy Sanders: No, sir. Capt. Michael Gallant: Because they're men of good will. They weren't assigned to this duty. They volunteered because they love you, Cuffy. There can be no greater Christmas present than that.
	Unknown Episode: Cuffy Sanders: A fine Christmas I made for everybody... stuck out here in the desert. Capt. Michael Gallant: The first Christmas Eve was on a desert just like this, Cuffy. Cuffy Sanders: Without any snow or Christmas trees? Capt. Michael Gallant: No snow, no Christmas trees - just sand and oasises and little towns of mud brick. Towns like Taroudant and Zagora, Wazazant... only this town was called Bethlehem.
	Unknown Episode: Cuffy Sanders: And those were the first Christmas presents - that gold and that other stuff? Capt. Michael Gallant: Not exactly, Cuffy. The first Christmas present - and the greatest - was Jesus himself, who brought to all men the promise of peace, the example of sacrifice and the lesson of love.
	Unknown Episode: Narrator: More than a hundred years ago, the Foreign Legion first patrolled the great Sahara. Today, this same desert is the training ground for the Legion's new recruits. Through hardship and bitter fighting, they soon become they soon become the hardy fighters who have brought so much glory to the tri-color of France.
	Unknown Episode: Sgt. Duval: He's a strange one, this Schmidt. Not once has he gone into town in the three weeks we have been here. I offer him passes, but he always refuses. Capt. Michael Gallant: A Legionnaire turning down passes to town? The honor of the regiment is at stake.
	Unknown Episode: Makko: That's what's the matter with this country. The politicians want to be philosophers and the philosophers want to be left alone. Jeannine: And barmen that talk like philosophers - what do they want? Marcel, Jeannine's brother: One of them wants to marry my sister.
	Unknown Episode: Jeannine: Why did you not come back sooner? Cpl. Johann Schmidt: Because you are French and I am German. There is no love strong enough to build a bridge across the Rhine.
	Unknown Episode: Narrator: Along the vast perimeter of the Sahara Desert is a chain of ancient cities established by the Moslem conquerors more than a thousand years ago. The only law for centuries was that of the sword. But now, to protect the weak and to punish those who would break the law, there is a force unlike any other - and that force is the French Foreign Legion.
	Unknown Episode: Cuffy Sanders: Gee, it sure is nice. How much? Arab Merchant: Two thousand francs - but to a special friend, a special price... one thousand francs. Cuffy Sanders: If it costs a thousand francs, I won't have any francs to put in it!
	Unknown Episode: Commodore M.T. Langton: Now what are the terms of the ransom note? Capt. Gallant: [reading note] "Commodore Langton, at 6 o'clock tonight, one man, alone - not followed, must bring 10,000 English pounds to the old Fierro mill or George Langton will be killed." Commodore M.T. Langton: He isn't worth it. My nephew isn't worth ten pounds, let alone ten thousand pounds. He's just a fancy talking landlubber; a dilettante who hasn't done an honest day's - or a dishonest day's - work in his life.
	Unknown Episode: Pvt. Knight: I think I found that girl you're looking for, Captain. Capt. Gallant: Who is she? Pvt. Knight: Her name is Charlene something. She's French and she's fire. Capt. Gallant: How do you know that? Pvt. Knight: I know a guy that got burned.