Army quotes

“Remember, General... public officials that go down... go down very, very fast.”

Charles Gorgano - Michaelson's Friend

“When a country has five percent of the world's population but does fifty percent of its military spending, then the persuasive powers of that country are on the decline.”
Alexander Siddig - Prince Nasir Al-Subaai

“- Brian Flagg: Listen to me, Briggs, think for a minute, do you suppose an army of guys in plastic suits show up every time a meteor falls?
- Dr. Meddows: Shoot him, that's a direct order!
- Brian Flagg: How do you think they got here so fast? How did they even know when to come?
- Dr. Meddows: Shoot dammit shoot!”
Kevin Dillon - Brian Flagg
Joe Seneca - Dr. Meddows

“Cetshwayo's Zulu army to disband and the warriors permitted to return to their homes.”

John Mills - Sir Henry Bartle Frere

“- Colonel Meyers: I had a rifle company in the 1st Battalion and 7th in '68.
- Highway: Well, we sure as hell chewed some of the same dirt, sir.
- Colonel Meyers: That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise?
- Highway: It's a cluster fuck.”
Richard Venture - Colonel Meyers
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“My father said the army makes all men one, but you never know which one. He didn't know Roland Bozz.”
Matthew Davis - Pvt. Jim Paxton

“- Lt. Jeff Knight: What's it like?
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: What's it like? You go out on patrol, and you kill a few of them. Then they kill a few of yours. Then you go back to base. Eat. Sleep. Next day, same thing. Before you know it, you're either dead, or you're going home. It's good.”
Michael Dudikoff - Lt. Jeff Knight
Robert F. Lyons - Sgt. Michael McNamara

“- Fremen: You will never rid this planet of the Harkonnens with guerilla raids, boy.
- Paul: That is why I am asking you for a hundred of your young men. I wish to teach them the weirding way. So those hundred can come back to you and teach hundreds more. And those hundreds will teach hundreds more. Hundreds will become thousands.”
Alec Newman - Paul Atreides

“- Buster Stupid: What if we formed our own army?
- Petunia Stupid: Then we'd have to form our own country.
- Joan Stupid: We could call it Stupidia.”
Bug Hall - Buster Stupid
Alex McKenna - Petunia Stupid
Jessica Lundy - Joan Stupid

“- Phil Davis: We wouldn't be any good as generals.
- Major General Thomas F. Waverly: You weren't any good as privates.”
Dean Jagger - Major General Thomas F. Waverly

“Better one unreported and unvindicated rape than to shake the foundations of West Point... to cast suspicion on a thousand soldiers who did not gang-rape a woman that night. All you have to do is convince your daughter that she, the academy, the Army, and the cause of equality would be best served if she just forgot about the whole thing. These...” (continue)(continue reading)

John Frankenheimer - General Sonnenberg

“- Judy Benjamin: My husband had a heart attack and died on our wedding night, while we were making love.
- Pvt. Mary Lou Glass: Jesus! Benjamin! I don't get it, what do you do after a thing like that?
- Judy Benjamin: Join the Army!”
Goldie Hawn - Judy Benjamin
Mary Kay Place - Pvt. Mary Lou Glass

“- Annabelle Lee: Why didn't you enlist?
- Johnnie Gray: They wouldn't take me.
- Annabelle Lee: Please don't lie, I don't want you to speak to me again until you are in uniform.”
Marion Mack - Annabelle Lee
Buster Keaton - Johnnie Gray

“You were born into a family. You do not join them like you do the Marines.”
Jason Bernard - Jerry

“There's not much makeup in the army, is there? They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?”
Eddie Izzard - Himself

“- Private Robert Ortiez: I got an honorable discharge, if you can believe it.
- Hank Deerfield: It's the Army, I can believe anything.”
Roman Arabia - Private Robert Ortiez
Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Deerfield

“Look at those we've conquered. They leave their dead unburied, they smash their enemies skulls and drink them as dust, they mate in public! How can they think, or sing, or write when none can read? But as Alexander's army they could go where they never thought possible. They can soldier, or work in the cities.”
Colin Farrell - Alexander

“Here at Air America, what's considered psychotic behavior anywhere else is company policy.”
Mel Gibson - Gene

“All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I love the Corps!”
Al Matthews - Sergeant Apone

“- Cole: How long have you been in the Navy?
- Jake Huard: Sir, I've been in the Navy all my bloomin' life, sir. My mother was a mermaid, my father was King Neptune. Every bone in my body is a spar. And when I spits, I spits tar. I's hard. I is, I am, I are.”
Tyrese Gibson - Cole
James Franco - Jake Huard

“- John R. Cash: I got a couple of songs I wrote in the Air Force. You got anything against the Air Force?
- Sam Phillips: No.
- John R. Cash: I do.”
Joaquin Phoenix - John R. Cash
Dallas Roberts - Sam Phillips

“- Mrs. Kendoo: Hello William.
- William Williams: Hi Mrs.Kendoo, is Sally there?
- Mrs. Kendoo: No she's in New York with agents.
- William Williams: Tell her I joined the army, I miss her and I got her face tattooed on my arm.”
Jennifer Coolidge - Mrs. Kendoo
Chris Klein - William Williams

“I expect to lose half of you before I'm finished. I will use every means necessary, fair and unfair, to trip you up, to expose your weaknesses as a potential aviator.”

Louis Gossett Jr. - Sgt. Emil Foley

“- General Huddleston: This is a great day for the Air Force, Senator.
- Sen. Bryce: Why is that, General?
- General Huddleston: Because the Navy ordered twenty of those disasters.
- Navy Officers: Son of a bitch!”

Robert Cornthwaite - Huddleston
Ken Letner - Sen. Bryce

“- Capt. Saunders: You are pissing your life away.
- Bozz: Well, I don't need the fucking army and I don't need the fucking war to tell me that, Sir!”
Nick Searcy - Capt. Saunders
Colin Farrell - Pvt. Roland Bozz