A Handful of Clouds (1930)

Hymie - a gangster: We agreed to Louie's proposition, we pay him for protection, and now he gives us the breeze.
Midget: Yeah, you mean he turned rat! That's what you mean.
Mileaway: Why you dirty grease ball! You wouldn't have the guts to pull that if Louie was within 20 miles of here.

Louie: Oh, Hymie, Mileaway will take my place.

Louie: You know, I was just thinkin', if I'd been born a couple a hundred years ago, I might've been as big a man as Napoleon.