General Broulard: Colonel Dax, are you trying to blackmail me?Colonel Dax: It's an ugly word, but you are in a difficult situation.
General Mireau: I can't understand these armchair officers, fellas trying to fight a war from behind a desk, waving papers at the enemy, worrying about whether a mouse is gonna run up their pants leg.Colonel Dax: I don't know, General. If I had the choice between mice and Mausers, I think I'd take the mice every time.
If those little sweethearts won't face German bullets, they'll face French ones!