Soldiers quotes

“- Highway: You men do not impress me!
- Profile: Recon platoon kicks butt.
- Highway: [grabs Profile by the nose] If you ladies think that you can slip and slide just because your last sergeant was a pussy, well queer bait, you're going to start acting like Marines right now!”
Clint Eastwood - Highway
Tom Villard - Profile

“Out there, children play soldier. In here, soldiers play like children.”
Pierre Fresnay - Le captaine de Boeldieu

“I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.”
Gary Cooper

“My brothers. Steady your heart. Look deep into your souls. For your mettle is to be tested this day.”

Sullivan Stapleton - Themistokles

“- Samantha: I don't understand. You said you're not a cop.
- Jack Reacher: I'm not.
- Samantha: What's military police?
- Turner: It's different.
- Samantha: But... you stole this car.
- Turner: It's complicated.”
Danika Yarosh - Samantha
Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher
Cobie Smulders - Turner

“Think about all those men out there, in their uniforms! Barking and swallowing orders! Inflicting their petty rule over the entire globe! Think of all the harm they've done! To you! To me! To humanity! And know this, that we can make them, and the flags, and the anthems, and the governments disappear! In a flash! You and me!”
Nick Nolte - Father

“This man's name was Gunpei Ikari. If you take away the uniforms and the war, then he became my brother.”
John C. Reilly - Hank Marlow

“- Dave Brown: Every shooting testimony contains inconsistencies. No man whoever shoots and kills another man is entirely cogent in the moment. No plan survives contact with the enemy.
- Joan Confrey: Did you learn that with the first man you killed?
- Dave Brown: I learned that serving my country as a non-electric pop-up target in an often...” (continue)(continue reading)
Woody Harrelson - Dave Brown
Sigourney Weaver - Joan Confrey

“I remember the day they came and took us away, the soldiers... hunting us. No one will stand up for us, we have to save ourselves.”
Tahyna MacManus - Kayla's Sister

“Spartans! Prepare for glory!”
Gerard Butler - King Leonidas

“The more guns there are here, the more likely there is to be a misunderstanding.”

David Costabile - Bob

“These were my guys. Fighting the dull fight. Soldiers with nothing to kill except time. They know that war is hell, but peace... peace is fucking boring.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Major Biggs: There are rules and Marines are sworn to uphold them.
- Childers: I was not going to stand by and see another Marine die just to live by those fucking rules.”

Guy Pearce - Major Biggs
Samuel L. Jackson - Childers

“I served my country - and they just want to take from it - just take, take! Love it or leave it, that's what I think.”
Tom Cruise - Ron Kovic

“- Preston Packard: We're soldiers, we do the dirty work so that families back home don't suffer! They shouldn't even know that a thing like this exists!
- Mason Weaver: The world is bigger than this.
- Preston Packard: Bitch, please!”
Samuel L. Jackson - Preston Packard
Brie Larson - Mason Weaver

“- Ulysses: When I was a soldier, my fingers were frost-bitten. Since then, when I get cold there is a pain.
- Edward Wilson: Maybe you shouldn't live in Russia.”
Oleg Shtefanko - Ulysses
Matt Damon - Edward Wilson

- General Hein: Report any aberrant behavior in Dr. Ross to the Major immediately.
- Grey: "Aberrant behavior", sir?
- General Hein: The woman carries an alien infection. It may be clouding her judgment. They may be manipulating her for their very own purposes.
- Grey: Is the General suggesting Dr. Ross is a spy?
- General Hein: The General is... (continue)(continue reading)
James Woods - General Hein
Alec Baldwin - Captain Gray Edwards

“- Jean-Pierre: Forty-seven samurai, whose master was betrayed and killed by another lord. They became ronin - masterless samurai - disgraced by another man's treachery. For three years they plotted, pretending to be thieves, mercenaries, even madmen and then one night they struck, slipping into the castle of their lord's betrayer and killing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Lonsdale - Jean-Pierre
Robert De Niro - Sam

“Those sailors out there are just boys... boys who are training to do a terrible and unthinkable thing, and if that ever occurs the only reassurance they'll have that they're doing the proper thing is gonna derive from their unqualified belief in the unified chain of command. That means we don't question each other's motives in front of the crew....” (continue)(continue reading)

Gene Hackman - Ramsey

“- Lt. Col. Hal Moore: I'll never forgive myself.
- Joe Galloway: For what, sir?
- Lt. Col. Hal Moore: That my men died and I didn't.”
Mel Gibson - Lt. Col. Hal Moore
Barry Pepper - Joe Galloway

“- Yukio: You're a soldier, and you seek what all soldiers do.
- Logan: And what's that?
- Yukio: An honorable death. An end to your pain.”
Rila Fukushima - Yukio
Hugh Jackman - Logan

“If in the heat of battle you need a reason to fight on, you need only to look at the man who fights at your side.”

Sullivan Stapleton - Themistokles

“The war is not over, but for me... it's over.”
Jesuthasan Antonythasan - Dheepan

“We've lost good friends. Family. All good people. Heroes, every one of them. Our hearts and prayers go out to their families. And they will be remembered. Nor will we forget those who serve out of the spotlight, to whom we owe our highest gratitude.”
Aaron Eckhart - President Benjamin Asher

“- Col. Everett Dasher Breed: What's your name, soldier?
- Vernon Pinkley: Number two, Sir!”
Robert Ryan - Col. Everett Dasher Breed
Donald Sutherland - Vernon Pinkley