I've always been kind of a pacifist. When I was a kid, my father told me, "Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it". I don't know what kind of soldier I'm gonna make, but I want you guys to know that if we ever get into really heavy combat... I'll be right behind you guys. Every step of the way.

Harold Ramis - Russell

“- Archie Howard: Little Hector Passmore over here passed out as soon as he saw a little blood in the water.
- Hector Passmore: I didn't pass out. I just felt a little woozy is all. I'm a pacifist man. I don't dig the sight of spilled blood.”
Robin Nielsen - Archie Howard
Chris Gauthier - Hector Passmore

“I have no respect for pacifism. It's a morally bankrupt belief. Pacifists believe that they have the right not to kill, but others always die in defence of that right.”
Roy Scheider - Don Falcone

“The French haven't the nature for war. Their Gallic laziness combines with their Latinate voluptuousness with the result that they would rather eat and make love with their faces than fight.”
Mac Andrews - Gen. Webb

“- Maj. Duncan Heyward: I thought all our colonial scouts were in the militia. The militia is fighting the French in the north.
- Hawkeye: I ain't your scout. And we sure ain't no damn militia.”
Steven Waddington - Maj. Duncan Heyward
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye