“- Bill Hafner: How many men you got out there that ain't brain dead?
- Jones: I've got nobody willing to trip over his own guts for the Vietnamese way of life.
- Bill Hafner: I got no delusions about you or your men's democracy Jones. We are gonna refortify this shit hole and protect it like it was your daughter's cherry. I ain't gonna die here.”
R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner
Albert Popwell - Jones

“Today, democracy, liberty, and equality are words to fool the people. No nation can progress with such ideas.”
Henry Daniell - Garbitsch

“What's the good of talking to you? You can't even begin to understand democracy.”

Raymond Massey - Andy Brock

“- Manya Lodge: Once, in Germany, we had a democracy. But...
- Helen Stacey: But you lost it?
- Manya Lodge: No, we didn't lose it. We let it be murdered - like a little child.”
Mady Christians - Manya Lodge
Patricia Collinge - Helen Stacey

“We are not the members of a democracy, Father. We are the members of an order.”
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel