Sgt. Triand Quotes in March or Die (1977)

Sgt. Triand: [El Krim's mounted tribesmen are growing in number and coming dangerously close to the Legionnaires holed up in the compound. Major Foster seems indecisive] Please, sir, the orders?... The men are waiting for your orders.

Maj. William Sherman Foster: [Showing signs of disorientation, with WWI flashback] Are the men in their trenches?

Sgt. Triand: [Impassively] There are no trenches, sir.

Maj. William Sherman Foster: [Getting agitated] Why haven't the trenches been dug?

Sgt. Triand: [Calmly reminding Foster that the men were building the wall that Major Foster himself had ordered built a few days earlier] The men were building a wall for protection, sir.

Maj. William Sherman Foster: [Bursting with agitation] For protection? For protection from WHAT?... These are dead men. They wanted to die. That's why we joined the Legion - not to live, but to die. And we shall... all die. And for what? So that some fat, overstuffed Frenchman can belch his lunch on the sight of gold in the Louvre!