Soldiers quotes

“Few of us are given the opportunity, even fewer the courage to sacrifice ourselves for the lives of our comrades. In daily life, even as in battle each one of us is mysteriously and irrevocably bound to our fellow man. And yet, it is only in death that the power of this bond is finally tested and proven. And who among us really knows how he...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Roarke - The President

“I reckon the folks'd be a slight happier if I died like a soldier. Can't say I would.”
Clint Walker - Samson Posey

“It was during the Great War that we first started mining moss. It was used for putting on soldiers' wounds, because it was ten times more absorbent than cotton wool. So when they were horribly wounded, it was our moss that soaked up their blood and guts and everything.”
Robert Norman - Fraser

“- General Alfred Terry: For the record, I don't like you. You're too sure of yourself, too much your own man.
- Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer: Then why did you bring me back?
- General Alfred Terry: Because, by the Almighty, you're a soldier. There's another kind of war brewing out here on the frontier. We're going to need every...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert F. Simon - General Alfred Terry
Wayne Maunder - Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer

“Just because we're holding hands doesn't mean we'll be taking warm showers together until the wee hours of the morning.”
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“- Capt. Hermann Musk: Otto, I'm not a Nazi.
- Otto: No, you're worse. Lousy officers. You went along with it all, even though you knew who was in charge.”
Karel Hermánek - Hauptmann Musk
Sylvester Groth - Otto

“- Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel... that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.
- Col. 'Bat' Guano: That's private property.
- Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn...” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Sellers - Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake
Keenan Wynn - Col. 'Bat' Guano

“- Ron Kovic: Sometimes, Stevie, I think people, they know you're back from Vietnam, and their face - changes: the eyes, the voice, the way they look at you, you know.
- Steve Boyer: I know what you mean, Ronnie, but people here - they don't give a shit about the war!”
Tom Cruise - Ron Kovic
Jerry Levine - Steve Boyer

“- Highway: Hey, Baby. You fool around on the first date?
- Little Mary: Oooooo [hugs Highway].
- Little Mary: Damn you, boy, don't you know how to write or call?
- Highway: Well, I didn't want you to spend any sleepless nights thinking about me.
- Little Mary: Come on, I'll get you a beer.
- Highway: Great. I could use one.
- Highway: You look...” (continue)(continue reading)
Clint Eastwood - Highway
Eileen Heckart - Little Mary

“This war's become very confusing. Nobody... nobody wants to fight in it. Nobody seems to want to win it. Maybe it never should have happened, but people do die in it.”

Brad Johnson - Lt. Jake 'Cool Hand' Grafton

“You're not a soldier! I'm a soldier, with the career goal of all soldiers: staying alive in situations where it ain't all that easy to do! You're a death-lover. Some sorry son of a bitch has got you convinced that dying for a cause is oh, so romantic. Well, that's the worst kind of all the kinds of bullshit there is!”
Ronny Cox - Colonel Kerby

“An army without leaders is like a foot without a big toe.”
Bill Murray - John

“Dale Wesley Stillwell, Robert Edward Gattlin, it is the finding of this military tribunal that you are in violation of the articles of war. And your undisciplinary conduct resulted in the failure of a military objective. Therefore, it is the pronouncement of this tribunal that you are to be executed by firing squad.”
Chris Lloyd - Maj. Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish

“And now, you scum, it's my turn. I'm going to give you a lesson in putting down an attempted mutiny that'll be the last thing you'll ever see. Maybe this'll make you die happy. Markoff thanks you. When he's an officer and has the Legion of Honor, he'll think often of the stupid, blundering pigs that put him where he is.”

Brian Donlevy - Markoff

“I am sick and tired of filling body bags with your dumb fucking mistakes.”

Dylan McDermott - Sgt. Adam Frantz

“My name's Gunnery Sergeant Highway and I've drunk more beer and banged more quiff and pissed more blood and stomped more ass that all of you numbnuts put together. Now Major Powers has put me in charge of this reconisence platoon.”
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“A military man, especially a commander, should keep a journal. After he's gone, it's the only real defense against the slander that later arises.”
Will Patton - General Bethlehem

“The bigger they come, the harder they fall.”

Viggo Mortensen - Frank Roberts

“- Sedgwick 'Manufacturer': Danny, do you speak Russian?
- Danny 'Tunnel King': A little, but only one sentence.
- Sedgwick 'Manufacturer': Well, let me have it, mate.
- Danny 'Tunnel King': Ya vas lyublyu.
- Sedgwick 'Manufacturer': Ya ya vas...
- Danny 'Tunnel King': Lyublyu.
- Sedgwick 'Manufacturer': Lyubliu? Ya vas lyubliu. Ya vas lyublyu....” (continue)(continue reading)
James Coburn - Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
Charles Bronson - Danny 'Tunnel King'

- Stan the Rookie: We had our first practice today.
- Sgt. Richard "Rascal" Moore: Oh yeah? How'd it go?
- Stan the Rookie: Well, we need a couple more. If you guys have any advice...?
- Sgt. Jack Bocci: Yeah, get a gun, shoot yourself in the foot, and go home!
- Sgt. Eugene McVey: Now, that's good advice!
- Sgt. Richard "Rascal" Moore: Hey, are... (continue)(continue reading)
Steven Mackintosh - Stan the Rookie
Sean Astin - Sgt. Richard "Rascal" Moore
Neil Giuntoli - Sgt. Jack Bocci
Courtney Gains - Sgt. Eugene McVey

“- Maj. Duncan Heyward: I thought all our colonial scouts were in the militia. The militia is fighting the French in the north.
- Hawkeye: I ain't your scout. And we sure ain't no damn militia.”
Steven Waddington - Maj. Duncan Heyward
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye

“Hey, look, new coffins. And they even sent us the stuff to fill them with!”

Edwin Maxwell - Herr Bäumer

“I'm the ayatollah of rocka - rolla.”
Mario Van Peebles - Stitch

“This sort of behavior is demoralizing for the ordinary soldiers and citizens who are trying to lead normal, simple, unexceptional lives. I think things are difficult enough as it is without these emotional people rocking the boat.”

Jonathan Pryce - The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson

“There are no bad crews, only bad leaders.”
Viggo Mortensen - Master Chief John James Urgayle