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"This is where we hold them!

This is where we FIGHT!

THIS is where THEY DIE!!

93 posted on 04/04/2007 5:27:27 PM PDT by Old Sarge (+ /_\)

260 posted on 04/04/2007 6:24:30 PM PDT by fatima (Shut up Murtha)

Messenger: Why does this woman think she can speak amongst men?

Queen Gorgo: Because only Spartan women give birth to real men.

Leonidas' Queen Gorgo

841 posted on 04/04/2007 9:37:27 PM PDT by eleni121 ( + En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great))

From the same movie ... Leonidas, speaking to the traitor Ephialtes, whose shame is consuming him ...

"Ephialtes, may you live forever."

How about the scene where the "god emperor Xerxes" comes to Thermopylae and tells Leonidas that he has done well that day, but that tomorrow, the Persians will unleash their "Immortals." Leonidas replies, "So? From what I've seen, we should have marched our women up here. We'll test your Immortals and see if they live up to their name."

There are too many good lines in that movie to pick only one ...

And of course there's the classic:

Xerxes: "My archers will blot out the sun with their arrows."

Leonidas' captain: "Then we will fight in the shade."

1,438 posted on 04/07/2007 6:59:20 AM PDT by IronJack (=)

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