Waterloo

[Doctor Phibes]

The polls were looking good for the fat, argumentative bloke, here, too, but with a little help from the Prussians and the Prince of Orange (no relation), the Iron-Duke saved the day for sanity, England and Saint George (not necessarily in that order)

[Larry]

Let's see.... You're talking about the nation that went from owning a fourth of the world to an island the size of Idaho, right?.....

[Doctor Phibes]

We sure punched above our weight until the foreigners finally got wise to it and started demanding we stop killing them. It was our innate sense of fair play that let us down in the end.