Band of Brothers2001

Capt. Ronald Speirs:
Well, go ahead and ask me.

C. Carwood Lipton:
Ask you what, sir?

Capt. Ronald Speirs:
The stories about me. You want to know if they're true, right? You know the funny thing about stories like that? Everyone always says they heard it from someone who was there. Then if you ask that person, they say *they* heard it from someone who was there, and so on. I bet if you went back 2,000 years, you'd find a bunch of centurions standing around talking about how Tertius lopped the heads off of some Carthaginian prisoners.

C. Carwood Lipton:
Well, sir, maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tertius deny it.

Capt. Ronald Speirs:
Well, maybe that's because Tertius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest son of a b*tch in the whole Roman legion.