Soldiers quotes
429 soldiers quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: The Siege
“I ran the network in Iraq for two years. Samir recruited them from among the Sheik's followers and I trained them in the north. The Sheik was going to help us overthrow Saddam, I mean, he was our ally. We were financing him. Then there was a policy shift. It's not like we sold them out exactly, we just stopped helping them. They were slaughtered.”
- From the movie: Gettysburg
“To be a good soldier you must love the army. To be a good commander you must be able to order the death of the thing you love.”
- From the movie: The Dirty Dozen
“- Maj. Reisman: So what does that give you?
- Capt. Stuart Kinder: Doesn't give me anything. But along with these other results, it gives you just about the most twisted, anti-social bunch of psychopathic deformities I have ever run into! And the worst, the most dangerous of the bunch, is Maggott. You've got one religious maniac, one malignant...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Four Feathers
“You may be lost, but you are not forgotten. For those who have travelled far, to fight in foreign lands, know that the soldier's greatest comfort is to have his friends close at hand. In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea for which we fight. Or a flag. Rather we fight for the man on our left, and we fight for the man on our right. And...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: We Were Soldiers
“We were soldiers once, and young.”
- From the movie: Heartbreak Ridge
“All right, you devil dogs, let's take that fuckin' hill!”
- From the movie: Heartbreak Ridge
“And, don't go away mad, just go away.”
- From the movie: Rambo: First Blood Part II
- From the movie: Dr. Strangelove
“- Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
- Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Romero
I'd like to make an appeal in a special way to the men in the army. Brothers, each one of you is one of us. We are the same People. The farmers and peasants that you kill are your own brothers and sisters. When you hear the words of a man telling you to kill, think instead in the words of God, "Thou shalt not kill". No soldier is obliged to obey... (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Dunkirk
“How hard is it to find a dead Englishman on Dunkirk beach? He didn't kill anyone!”
- From the movie: Suffragette
“- Maud Watts: You a suffragette, Mrs. Ellyn?
- Edith Ellyn: Yes, well I consider myself more a soldier, Mrs. Watts.” - From the movie: Stripes
“- Sgt. Hulka: We got a full day ahead of us. We're gonna start out with a five-mile run.
- John Winger: I know that I'm speaking for the entire platoon when I say this run should be postponed until this platoon is better rested.
- Sgt Hulka: Well, I'll tell you what, soldier. Let's make it ten miles.” - From the movie: Heartbreak Ridge
“Sergeant, you get that contraband stokey out of my face, or I'll shove it up your ass so far you'll have to set fire to your nose to light it.”
- From the movie: Saving Private Ryan
“- Private Ryan: Hell, these guys deserve to go home as much as I do. They've fought just as hard.
- Captain Miller: Is that what I'm supposed to tell your mother when she gets another folded American flag?
- Private Ryan: You can tell her that when you found me, I was with the only brothers I had left. And that there was no way I was deserting...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the TV Series: Homeland
“Do I want to be friends with a demented ex-soldier who hates America, who decided that strapping on a bomb was what the answer to what ailed him, despite his daughter, his son, people who loved him in real life and not in the mind-fuck world of Abu Nazir? Who in the end didn't have the stones to go through with it but had no problem sending me...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the TV Series: Peaky Blinders
“The one minute. The soldier’s minute. In a battle, that’s all you get. One minute of everything at once. And anything before is nothing. Everything after, nothing. Nothing in comparison to that one minute.”
- From the movie: Mulan
“Mulan-It’s beautiful.
Zhou-Beautiful tool, for terrible work.” - From the movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai
- From the movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai
“- Maj. Warden: I belong to a rather rum group called Force 316. Our headquarters is up in the botanical gardens.
- Commander Shears: Protecting rare plants from the enemy?” - From the movie: Bombshell
“Do you know why we dress soldiers the same? So everybody knows they're replaceable.”
- From the movie: War Machine
“Wars aren't fought by nations or by armies. Wars are fought by men. There are two types of general in the American military. There are those who believe they can win in the face of all evidence to the contrary. And there are those who know they can't. Unfortunately for the world, it's the believers who climb to the top of the ladder. It's guys...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Fort Apache
“- Captain York: I'm Captain Yorke, sir. I bid you welcome, General Thursday.
- Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: I'm not a general, Captain. A man is what he's paid for. I'm paid in the rank of Lt. Colonel.
- Captain York: I'd remembered you as a general from the war, sir.” - From the movie: Story of G.I. Joe
- From the movie: Story of G.I. Joe
“The new kids that come up, that's what gets you. The new ones, some of them have just got a little fuzz on their faces. They don't know what its all about. Scared to death. You know, Ernie, I know it ain't my fault that they get killed, but it makes me feel like a murderer. I hate to look at 'em, the new kids.”
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