The Command (1954)

Joan Weldon: Martha Cutting

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• Capt. Robert MacClaw : I'm getting out of the Army in seven days.

  Martha Cutting : As a civilian?

  Capt. Robert MacClaw : As a doctor.

  Martha Cutting : But you're one now.

  Capt. Robert MacClaw : Am I? A veterinarian can yank an arrow out of a dead man or a live one and a blacksmith can cauterize a wound with a hot iron. But neither of 'em can pull a child through diptheria or pneumonia.

• Martha Cutting : You hate being a soldier and you hate killing. Yet you do it.

  Capt. Robert MacClaw : I got a uniform and a conscience. Right now, the uniform covers the conscience.

• Martha Cutting : You sympathize with them. Why?

  Capt. Robert MacClaw : Perhaps because we destroyed the Indian's ability to make a distinction between the good and the bad. He has a child's logic: the white man hurt him, therefore all white men are bad.