Therefore you will all understand me.

I will understand you.

And each of you will understand the rest.
"Major Bohannan and I have chosen you and have invited you here because we believe every man in this room is precisely the kind of man I have been defining.

We believe you are like ourselves, dying of boredom, eager for adventure; and willing to undergo military discipline, swear secrecy, pledge honor and risk life itself, provided the adventure be daring enough, the reward promising enough.

If there is anyone here present who is unwilling to subscribe to what I have said, so far, let him withdraw." No one stirred.