Army quotes

“- Medic Chamberlain: Tanks on our right side, 88 millimeter cannons on our left side. This fucking army.
- Pvt. David Manning: Fucking army.”
Frank Whaley - Chamberlain - Medic
Ron Eldard - Manning

“What is a demilitarized zone? Sounds like something out of The Wizard of Oz.”
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“If you get all of us together, we ain't got a gang, we've got an army.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Amsterdam Vallon

“- Highway: What's your name, Marine?
- Lance Corporal Fragatti: Lance Corporal Fragatti, Gunny.
- Highway: [takes off Fragatti's sunglasses and steps on them] Well, you shouldn't litter Fag-eddi. It's ecologically unsound.”

Clint Eastwood - Highway
Vincent Irizarry - Fragetti

“How will we stop an army of the dead at our castle walls? How will you fight that? With more words? Most of our people have already fled. We are but sixty men.”

Marcus Gilbert - Lord Arthur

“Down here at Crazy Gene's Used Airplanes, people think we're out of our minds since we slashed the prices on our used C-123's!”
Mel Gibson - Gene

“- Capt. Matthew Yelland: If the United States falls under attack our job is to defend her in the past, present and future.
- Warren Lasky: And after that?
- Capt. Matthew Yelland: After that, we take our orders from the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces.”
Kirk Douglas - Capt. Matthew Yelland
Martin Sheen - Warren Lasky

“If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings.”

R. Lee Ermey - Gny. Sgt. Hartman

“- Lt. George C. Rice: Looks like you guys are going to be surrounded.
- Richard Winters: We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded.”
Jimmy Fallon - Lt. George C. Rice
Richard D. Winters - Himself

“There are three ways of doing things - The right way, the wrong way, and the Army way. See that in doing it your way, Mr. Brenner, you don't forget about the Army way.”
Clarence Williams III - Colonel Fowler

“That's one of the weaknesses of the military viewpoint: doesn't always recognize the importance of civilians in wartime.”

Harry Hayden - Doc Bissell

“Take your post. The Marines are looking for a few good men. Unfortunately you ain't it. We will blaze a path into battle for others to follow. Surrender is not in our creed. Let me here you say that.”
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“You're the backside of the army, and don't you forget it!”

Mark Ferris - Col. Rank

“God takes care of drunks, madmen and the American army.”
Brian Keith - President William McKinley

“Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.”

Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“- Bart Mancuso: Mr. Ryan...
- Jack Ryan: He's defecting.
- Bart Mancuso: And he can't change his mind?
- Jack Ryan: He's not going to change his mind.
- Bart Mancuso: Are you willing to bet your life on that?”
Scott Glenn - Bart Mancuso
Alec Baldwin - Jack Ryan

“Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard, but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless.”

R. Lee Ermey - Gny. Sgt. Hartman

“Mobile infantry does the dying. Fleet just does the flying.”
Casper Van Dien - Johnny Rico

The government said "We want men to fight the Nazis, join today". So I joined. I figured they were in a hurry. That was three hundred and eighty seven days ago.
Raymond Massey - Andy Brock

“- Judy Benjamin: I think they sent me to the wrong place.
- Capt. Doreen Lewis: Uh-huh.
- Judy Benjamin: See, I did join the army, but I joined a different army. I joined the one with the condos and the private rooms.”
Goldie Hawn - Judy Benjamin
Eileen Brennan - Capt. Doreen Lewis

“- Ben Hood: Get to sleep, young lady. I mean it.
- Wendy Hood: Fascist.
- Ben Hood: If I were a fascist, I would have sent you to one of those southern military academies a long time ago.”
Kevin Kline - Ben Hood
Christina Ricci - Wendy Hood

“- Sgt. Major Dickerson: [pointing to his rank insignia] What does three up and three down mean to you, airman?
- Adrian Cronauer: End of an inning?”
J. T. Walsh - Sgt. Major Dickerson
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“It would be well for your government to consider that having your ships and ours, your aircraft and ours, in such proximity... is inherently dangerous. Wars have begun that way, Mr. Ambassador.”
Richard Jordan - Jeffrey Pelt

Headquarters still didn't buy my analysis of the situation. Hell, they had "experts" sitting in air-conditioned offices in Saigon who understood the war better than any one in the front line. We had asked for ammunition and reinforcements. What we got was the mail run, a few cases of beer, and a VD film... There were times when we all wondered... (continue)(continue reading)
R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner

“The battle between Heaven and Hell has waged eternal, their armies fueled by souls harvested on Earth. The devil, Malebolgia, has sent a lieutenant to Earth to recruit men who will turn the world into a place of death in exchange for wealth and power, a place that will provide enough souls to complete his army and allow Armageddon to begin. All...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicol Williamson - Cogliostro