Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.
The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.
The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.
Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.