Soldiers quotes

“They say some of the boys coming back are coming back real confused.”

Charles Bronson - Mr. Roberts

“You're a soldier, and you take orders. Now don't push it.”

Robert Davi - Captain Phil Heinemann

“There's a look of greatness upon them. All the strong young boys, beautiful and proud, with dreams. Just like you, John.”

Irene Dunne - Susan Ashwood

“This is going to be our hardest battle. We'll be good soldiers, won't we?”
Ian Hunter - Capt. Crewe

“Most guys won't even talk about what happened over there, probably because they're still trying to forget it. They certainly didn't think of themselves as heroes.”
Harve Presnell - Dave Severance

“My six-year-old son can shoot better! Do you call yourself an Imperial soldier?”

Takumi Bando - Captain Tanida

“I want you all to remember what that bag looks like with a body in it, because if you become officers this is where they're going to put your mistakes.”
Tyrese Gibson - Cole

“They are an intriguing people. From the moment they wake they devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue. I have never seen such discipline.”

Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren

“When you were riding around on your Indian and wiping your ass with the American flag, my father was in Vietnam. He fought there, and he died there too. So don't tell me I like you, because I hate your fucking guts, okay?”

Kiefer Sutherland - John Buckner

Do you have what it takes to be the meanest, the cruelest, the most sadist unforgiving mother fuckers in God's cruel kingdom? Will you be able to one day say: "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the baddest mother fucker in the God damn valley?".

Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“Men, it's been a long war, it's been a tough war. You've fought bravely, proudly for your country. You're a special group. You've found in one another a bond, that exists only in combat, among brothers. You've shared foxholes, held each other in dire moments. You've seen death and suffered together. I'm proud to have served with each and every...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ross McCall - Joseph D. Liebgott

“- Murphy: Two clicks back. Abandoned campsite. Looked about Company size.
- Bill Hafner: Where there's a Company, there's a Battalion.”
Mark Neely - Murphy
R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner

“- Confederate Recruiter: Occupation?
- Johnnie Gray: Soldier!”

Frank Hagney - Confederate Recruiter
Buster Keaton - Johnnie Gray

“You laugh, you die. Scratch your nose, you die. You shift your weight to take a piss, you will die. You want to shit, you better shit in your pants.”
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“You and I, we're in separate armies, pal - but you're out in the light now, and I'm gonna see you get stepped on!”

Gene Hackman - Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

“Has anybody ever died from basic?”
Goldie Hawn - Judy Benjamin

“- John Geste: Charming fellow, our Sergeant.
- Beau Geste: A trifle uncouth. But the best soldier we'll ever see.”

Ray Milland - John Geste
Gary Cooper - Beau Geste

“You tell your men you are soldiers and that's your flag. You tell them nobody takes our flag. And you raise that flag so it flies high where everyone can see it. Now you've got yourself a castle. The only difference between this castle and all the rest is that they were built to keep people out. This castle is built to keep people in.”
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“- Styles: This kid we have in interrogation requested a Ranger, someone he'd never met. That's you.
- Hardy: Well, Jesus, Bill, he could've requested a sailboat, it doesn't mean you have to give it to him!”
Tim Daly - Styles
John Travolta - Hardy

“- Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum: Atchley do you realize that several Marines were killed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor while taking craps?
- Col. Virgil Hedgepath: No, sir.”
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum
Paul Mantee - Col. Virgil Hedgepath

“- Achilles: I told you how to fight but I never told you why to fight.
- Patroclus: I fight for you.
- Achilles: Yes, but who will you fight for when I'm gone? Soldiers fight for kings they've never even met. They fight when they're told to fight, they die when they're told to die.
- Patroclus: Soldiers obey.”
Brad Pitt - Achilles
Garrett Hedlund - Patroclus

“Zero-six, you've been shot down, life is tough. You're a combat aviator, start acting like one. Remember your training, put some angles between you and your pursuers. Evade and survive, and we will bring you home. You got that? We will bring you home.”

Gene Hackman - Reigart

“- D.I. Fitch: What the fuck are you even doing here?
- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Sir, I got lost on the way to college, sir.”
Scott MacDonald - D.I. Fitch
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“- Ack Ack Raymond: Do you realize that for every lost doll there's a little girl with a broken heart?
- George Calamari: Are you sure you want to be a Marine Acky? I just can see you having a killer instinct.”
Curtis Armstrong - Ack Ack Raymond
Joel Murray - George Calamari

“Just because you wear those sergeant's stripes it doesn't mean you ain't gonna die.”
Colin Farrell - Pvt. Roland Bozz