- You see, when... when you end up killing one of your men, you see, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others. Do you know how many men I've lost under my command? - How many? - Ninety-four. But that means I've saved the lives of ten times that many, doesn't it? Maybe even 20, right? Twenty times as many? And that's how simple it is. That's how you... that's how you rationalize making the choice between the mission and the man. - Except this time, the mission is the man. - This Ryan be better worth it. He’d better go home, cure some disease or invent a longer-lasting light bulb or something. ‘Cause the truth is I wouldn’t trade ten Ryans for one Vecchio or one Caparzo. - Amen.
Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg (1998)
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