- Major Otto Hecht: You are assuming that because a man steals from his country... he will also betray it?
- Professor Blake: No, that would make any tax fiddler a potential traitor.
- Professor Blake: Oh, there's no such thing as country, major. There are only rivers, mountains, houses and people. "Country" is an abstraction.
- Major Otto Hecht: You don't really believe that.
- Professor Blake: No.
- Zeno: Our mission is to take the village... and the refuelling depot, so that German submarines cannot function against the Allied invasion fleet. After that, I don't care what you do. Except - and listen very carefully, GENTLEMEN - the treasures of Athena are the property of the Greek people!