Pancho Villa Quotes in Viva Villa! (1934)

Bugle boy: [plays the "battle charge" on the bugle, and stops]

Pancho Villa: Play some more!

Bugle boy: That is all I know.

Pancho Villa: [laughs] That's okay. That's all you'll need!

Rodolfo Fierro: Pancho. Don't argue with him. Shoot him, and let's go.

Pancho Villa: No. No, we don't do that any more.

[Villa has ordered Fierro to ride in the airplane to prevent Lee from flying away]

Rodolfo Fierro: No.

Pancho Villa: What do you mean, "No"?

Rodolfo Fierro: I mean "No".

Pancho Villa: Why not?

Rodolfo Fierro: Because! Because... Because I don't think he is a good pilot!

Pancho Villa: Hmmm... You are probably right. But it doesn't matter. If he is no good, you shoot him and fly it yourself.

Rodolfo Fierro: Me?

Pancho Villa: Of course! Any child could fly one of these things.

Rodolfo Fierro: You could fly it?

Pancho Villa: Of course.

Rodolfo Fierro: Fly it.

Pancho Villa: Everyone is not like you.

President Francisco Madero: My friend, it's very much better that I die a fool trusting too much, than live a tyrant trusting no one at all.

Pancho Villa: [Lee is preparing to take off] Wait. Fiero is going with you.

Lee Arnold: What? Now wait a minute, Chief. Not with... Chief, it's tough enough up there as it is.

Pancho Villa: No, if you go up there alone, you could fly away. If you try that with Fiero... Fiero will shoot you.

Lee Arnold: Oh? And without a pilot, what's Fiero gonna do?

Pancho Villa: Fiero will shoot you.

Lee Arnold: [thinks, and then grimaces]

Lee Arnold: I'll fly for you, but I want something.

Pancho Villa: What?

Lee Arnold: [motions to Fierro] I want to blow his brains out.

Pancho Villa: I don't think he'll let you do that.

Lee Arnold: Well, then let these men go.

Pancho Villa: All right. How many?

Lee Arnold: How man... all of them! Their officers are dead; they can't hurt you; they don't want to fight any more.

Pancho Villa: No. Just one.

Lee Arnold: One?

Pancho Villa: One. Pick him! Go on, gringo. It's your chance to save one life. Go ahead.

Lee Arnold: [to Fierro] You pick him.

Rodolfo Fierro: [to guards] Let one go!

[they watch as one Colorado vaults the wall]