Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick: [to Major Bricker] You've been in-and-out of nine different camps because you're the biggest chiseler, hustler, and scrounger in the whole Army. Well, in two weeks our first recruits arrive, and whatever they need, and whatever this camp needs, you're going to supply. How you do it is your own business. So start hustling.


--William Holden (as Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick) in The Devil's Brigade

Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick: Major, when you address me, take that cigar out of your mouth.


--William Holden (as Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick) in The Devil's Brigade

Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick: They say you find what something is worth when you pay for it.


--William Holden (as Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick) in The Devil's Brigade

Lt. Harry Brubaker: I'm a lawyer from Denver, Colorado.
Mike Forney: Judas, how'd you wind up in a smelly ditch in Korea?
Lt. Harry Brubaker: I was just asking myself that same question.


--William Holden (as Lt. Harry Brubaker) in The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Lt. William Calhoun: [to Joyce] If anyone asks me to stick my neck out, I want to know who's doing the askin'.


--William Holden (as Lt. William Calhoun) in Union Station

Lt. William Calhoun: [to Marley] I may have to beat your brains out. You'll have to decide that.


--William Holden (as Lt. William Calhoun) in Union Station

McDonald Walling: If Bullock calls a meeting, he's got a good reason. He's a big man.


--William Holden (as McDonald Walling) in Executive Suite

McDonald Walling: The force behind a great company has to be more than the pride of one man; it has to be the pride of thousands. You can't make men work for money alone - you starve their souls when you try it, and you can starve a company to death the same way.
McDonald Walling: [picking up a small, flimsy table] And that's when we started doing things like this: the KF line. Walt, are your boys proud when they go out and sell this stuff? When they know the finish is going to crack, the veneer split off and the legs come loose?
Loren Phineas Shaw: Wait a minute, wait a minute. That's priced merchandise - it serves a definite purpose in the profit structure of this company. We're not cheating anyone.
McDonald Walling: Ourselves!
Loren Phineas Shaw: At that price, the customer knows exactly what he is going to get.
McDonald Walling: This!
[flips the table over, and easily tears off one of its legs]
McDonald Walling: This is what Tredway has come to mean!
[violently throws the leg against the wall]
McDonald Walling: And what do you suppose the people think of us when they buy it? How do you suppose the men in the factories feel when they make it? What must they think of a management that is willing to stoop to selling this kind of junk in order to add a dime a year to the dividend?


--William Holden (as McDonald Walling) in Executive Suite

McDonald Walling: We'll have a line of low-priced furniture, a new and different line - as different from anything we're making today as a modern automobile is different from a covered wagon. That's what you want Walt, isn't it - what you've always wanted? Merchandise that will sell because it had beauty and function and value - not because the buyers like your scotch or think that you're a good egg. The kind of stuff that you, Jesse, will feel in your guts when you know it's coming off your production line. A kind of product that you will be able to budget to the nearest hundredth of a cent, Shaw, because it will be scientifically and efficiently designed. And something you will be proud to have your name on, Miss Tredway.


--William Holden (as McDonald Walling) in Executive Suite

Michael Stewart: Darling, marriage is an institution, and not everyone belongs in one.


--William Holden (as ) in Meet the Stewarts