Army quotes

“- Dutch: Why don't you use the regular army? What do you need us for?
- Dillon: 'Cause some damn fool accused you of being the best.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Dutch
Carl Weathers - Dillon

“I decided to keep a journal and write about our experiences in the Marine Corps. Maybe I can get it published someday, that is if anyway wants to read about what happens to a bunch of guys they're gonna send to Vietnam.”
James Canning - Alvin Foster

“Hey, you want to talk Mexican? Join another tank, a Mexican tank. This is an American tank, we talk American.”

Brad Pitt - Wardaddy

“- Sergeant Webster: Major Powers and I are building an e-lite company of fighting men.
- Highway: The only thing you could build, Webster... is a good case of hemorrhoids.”
Moses Gunn - Sgt. Webster
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“Don't bother your head with things you don't understand and you won't go far wrong. Never go off at half cock. Keep cool, keep your mouth shut and avoid politicians like the plague. That's the way to get on in the army.”
Roland Culver - Colonel Betteridge

“There's an army depending on us for the truth. You can lie to anyone else. Never lie to a Ranger.”
Derek Luke - Curtis

“All of you that have never been listened to before and have seen your family killed, huh, you now have something that stands for you. You now have something that stands for you!”
Idris Elba - Commandant

“- Commandant: Hey, Agu. Just get out. Just Remember, when you are all poor and hungry, you'll remember me! You'll remember your commandant. Just go! Just go!
- Preacher: Come on. Everybody, let's move!
- Commandant: And know that I will be calling for you one day.”
Idris Elba - Commandant
Teibu Owusu Achcampong - Preacher

“- Maj. Gen. V.E. Hubik: Posse Comitatus, sir.
- Sheriff Buelton: Did you call me a pussy communist?
- Maj. Gen. V.E. Hubik: The U.S. Army is, by an act of congress; Posse Comitatus act, specifically precluded from enforcing civilian law outside the military reservation.
- Sheriff Buelton: Pussy communist?
- Maj. Gen. V.E. Hubik: That means I do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sandy Ward - General Hubik
G.D. Spradlin - Sheriff Buelton

“Mr Hunter, we have rules that are not open to interpretation, personal intuition, gut feelings, hairs on the back of your neck, little devils or angels sitting on your shoulder. We're all very well aware of what our orders are and what those orders mean. They come down from our Commander in Chief. They contain no ambiguity.”

Gene Hackman - Ramsey

- Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Three tours in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Desert Storm; three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of - Jesus. This man is a hero.
- General Al Kramer: Well, I think "legend" might be a better description, Mr. Sinclair.
- Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Well, now we can add kidnapping and... (continue)(continue reading)

David Marshall Grant - Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair
Stuart Wilson - General Al Kramer

“I had the best Assistant Driver in the entire Ninth Army in that seat. I promised my crew a long time ago I'd keep them alive. You're getting in the way of that.”
Brad Pitt - Wardaddy

“There are no midgets in the United States Air Force.”
Burt Lancaster - Gen. Lawrence Dell

“Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.”
R. Lee Ermey

“If people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.”
David Cross

Heck nobody goes in the army any more, except blacks. Someday one nigger's gonna wakeup and say, "We got the guns and the mustard gas and the tanks, hey we're runnin the army!". And they're gonna take over the whole damn country.
Gary Busey - Dell

“What is the difference between the Cub Scouts and the military? Cub Scouts don't have heavy artillery!”
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“- Colonel William Mortamus: Respect the uniform.
- Colonel A.J. Bullard: Believe me, sir, that is all I have respect for.”
Bryan Cranston - Colonel William Mortamus
Terrence Howard - Colonel A.J. Bullard

You know what I think, "on some level"? I think you're the kind of wise cocksucker that writes a tear-jerk play against the Marines and then turns around and smuggles a shitload of heroin into this country.

Anthony Zerbe - Antheil

“Poor Fred. I guess you think he's an awful sourpuss. He didn't use to be that way, though. The Army's had an awful effect on him - knocked all the life out of him... you can't have happy marriages on that kind of dough.”

Virginia Mayo - Marie Derry

“There's basically two types of guys in the army, the motherfuckers and the motherfucked. Sergeant Saad is the third kind, he fucks the motherfuckers. Which is doable when you're the chief MP by day and the director of retail heroin sales by night.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Bill Hafner: I didn't know that you were a flag-waver, Jones.
- Jones: I care... I don't care for a lot of it, but what I care for, I care for a lot. You know what I mean? I been a dedicated soldier for twenty three years. Does that tell you something? Hmm?
- Bill Hafner: Yeah, I came in the Marine Corps when I was 17 years old. It's all I...” (continue)(continue reading)

R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner
Albert Popwell - Jones

“One man with gun has more authority than whole army without ammunition.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“- Four Leaf Tayback - Vietnam Crew: I've never been outside the States.
- Cody - Vietnam Crew: Wait what? Are you fucking kidding me? Did you make this whole goddamn thing up? Dude you weren't even in the fucking service?
- Four Leaf Tayback - Vietnam Crew: Yes! Of course! Coast Guard!
- Cody - Vietnam Crew: Coast Guard.
- Four Leaf Tayback -...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Nolte - Four Leaf Tayback - Vietnam Crew
Danny McBride - Cody - Vietnam Crew

“- John Patrick Mason: All I know is that you were big in Vietnam, I saw the highlights on television.
- General Francis X. Hummel: Then you probably have no idea what it means to lead some of the finest men on God's earth into combat and then watch their memories get betrayed by their own fucking government.”
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel