Soldiers quotes

“- Pearl Kantrowitz: I've never seen one so small.
- Walker Jerome: You like that? My brother picked it up in southeast Asia.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: What was he doing over there?
- Walker Jerome: Killing people.”

Diane Lane - Pearl Kantrowitz
Viggo Mortensen - Walker Jerome

“I am a coward, Doctor. If I'd been anything but a soldier I might have lived my whole life and concealed it.”
John Clements - Harry Faversham

“- Terek Murad: My poor brother, how many militia did you kill?
- Vasilov: You have to understand, there were 50 of them. Plus the Americans...
- Terek Murad: Yes, but how many did you kill?
- Vasilov: None.”
David Hayman - Terek Murad
Peter Sullivan - Vasilov

“- Brad Whitaker: How do you like my personal pantheon of great commanders?
- General Leonid Pushkin: Butchers.
- Brad Whitaker: Surgeons. They cut away society's dead flesh.”
Joe Don Baker - Brad Whitaker
John Rhys-Davies - General Leonid Pushkin

“We're the leopards, the lions. Those who will take our place will be jackals, hyenas. All us leopards, lions, jackals, and sheep will go on thinking ourselves the salt of the Earth.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Troy

“Majorek used to be in the army. Brilliant man. The only thing I've got against him is he's not a socialist.”
Paul Bradley - Yehuda

“- Colonel Robert Moore: Wouldn't it behoove me to retain the services of an attorney? I know a good one.
- Brenner: Two problems there. First the obvious. There are no good ones. Second... you're not a civilian, Colonel, you're in the army. You have no rights to an attorney. You have no right to remain silent. And if you don't cooperate, I may...” (continue)(continue reading)

James Woods - Colonel Moore
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“Part of me thinks the kid's right. He asks what he's done to deserve this. He wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home. But then another part of me thinks, what if by some miracle we stay, then actually make it out of here. Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Sizemore - Sergeant Horvath

“- Franklin Sousley: Where do you think they're sending us?
- Mike Strank: I think it's the desert. It's just military psychology. They always train you for the desert on a volcano.”
Joseph Cross - Franklin Sousley
Barry Pepper - Mike Strank

“The men of Marine Force recon are selected to carry out illegal operations throughout the world. When they don't come home, their families are told fairy tales about what happened to them... and denied compensation. Well, I have choked on these lies my entire career. Well here and now the lies stop!”
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel

“In the grand scheme of things, what's one boat? This war's gonna end. It doesn't mean we have to end with it.”
William H. Macy - Chief of Boat Nathan Travers

“- West: What the fuck are you doing? Have you lost your fucking mind?
- Pike: Sargent, you told me to...
- West: Are you talking? Did you speak to me? Who the fuck told you to speak? A ranger never relinquishes his weapon.”

Samuel L. Jackson - West
Taye Diggs - Pike

“You are a pathetic excuse for a soldier, Griswald! You will never be a leader! Now, stand at attention until I return and do not move a muscle!”
Erik von Detten - Captain Brad

“Of course one soldier more or less doesn't make any difference, you know. That's why I'm making thousands and thousands of troops for England. See? Good strong fellows who won't be afraid as I was. I was afraid. That's why I ran away, you know.”

Morton Lowry - Traumatized Young Soldier

“This is not Rambo time.”

Chris Cooper - Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski

“These boys are now our soldiers! They belong to me now! If you try to get them back, your whole village will burn!
If you ask the Karen Rebels for help, I will cut out your tongues! If you go against me, I will feed you your intestines!
Hear me, believe me, and fear me!”

Maung Maung Khin - Major Pa Tee Tint

“- 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

“- 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

“All these thousands of men. Many of them not much more than boys. Each one of them some mother's son, some sister's brother, some daughter's father. Each one of them a whole person loved and cherished in some home far away. Many of them will never return.”
Jeff Daniels - Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“- General Francis X. Hummel: Major Anderson, if you have any concern for the lives of your men, you will order them to safety their weapons and place them on the deck.
- Ernest Paxton: This is not happening...
- Commander Anderson: Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel
William Forsythe - Ernest Paxton
Michael Biehn - Commander Anderson

“A fighting man must be vigilant to surprise attack no matter where he is. The survival of our nation depends on the readiness of Marines all over the world. Also more importantly, you only wiped yourself twice - grossly insufficient.”
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum

“Soldiers, no poor sap ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by being all that he can be.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“It makes no difference who you are, no matter how much training you got and the tougher guy you might be. When you're at the wrong spot at the wrong time, you gonna get it.”
John C. Reilly - Sgt. Storm

“For most problems the Marine is issued a solution. If ill, go to sickbay. If wounded, call a Corpsman. If dead, report to graves registration. If losing his mind no standard solution exists.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“- Russell: John, do you think I'm officer material?
- John: God, I'm worried about you.
- Russell: Come on! I'm in good shape, I'm walking tall, I'm looking good. First weekend in Europe.
- John: Yeah. We're spending it in an airplane hangar... guarding a truck!
- Russell: We've got each other.”
Harold Ramis - Russell
Bill Murray - John