Soldiers quotes

“- Jean-Luc Picard: If I may, just a word of advice about your first command?
- William Riker: Anything.
- Jean-Luc Picard: When your first officer insists that you can't go on away missions...
- William Riker: Ignore him. I intend to. Serving with you... has been an honor.
- Jean-Luc Picard: The honor was mine, Captain.”

Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes - William Riker

“- Piquet: If we fly in there, we create a shitstorm, and the whole treaty will collapse.
- Reigart: Admiral, Burnett says that Serb troops murdered his pilot!
- Piquet: Is your pilot an expert on Bosnia? Can he tell the difference of the uniform of a Serb, Croat, and Muslim? Because I can't, and I've been posted here for five years.”

Joaquim de Almeida - Piquet
Gene Hackman - Reigart

“- Sgt. Hastings: My men are soldiers in the United States Cavalry! And they are prepared to die for their country!
- Beauchamp: With all due respect, sir, you're out of your fuckin' mind.”
Adam Baldwin - Sgt. Hastings
James Oscar Lee - Beauchamp

“- Mariko: Stay.
- Logan: I can't, Princess. I'm a soldier, and I've been hiding too long.”
Tao Okamoto - Mariko
Hugh Jackman - Logan

“It's my leg! I want my leg, you understand? Can't you understand that? All's I'm saying is that I want to be treated like a human being! I fought for my country! I am a Vietnam veteran! I fought for my country! And I think that I deserve to be treated... decent!”

Tom Cruise - Ron Kovic

“Some of you have only known success your entire life. But this year, your plebe year, you will know failure and failure is a far greater teacher than success.”
Scott D. Carson - Brigade Commander

“- Cage: I'm not a soldier.
- Rita: Of course not. You're a weapon.”
Tom Cruise - Cage
Emily Blunt - Rita

“- Private Ryan: Uh sir? Where am I to be during all this?
- Captain Miller: No more than two feet away from me. And that's not negotiable.”
Matt Damon - Private Ryan
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Bill Hafner: I didn't know that you were a flag-waver, Jones.
- Jones: I care... I don't care for a lot of it, but what I care for, I care for a lot. You know what I mean? I been a dedicated soldier for twenty three years. Does that tell you something? Hmm?
- Bill Hafner: Yeah, I came in the Marine Corps when I was 17 years old. It's all I...” (continue)(continue reading)

R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner
Albert Popwell - Jones

“- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: You're going to have to decide on this one, Paul - Are you a soldier or a policeman?
- Brenner: I'm a soldier, sir.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: I'm counting on it.”
James Cromwell - General Campbell
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“- Captain Darrow: Excuse me, General... but what about the fucking money?
- General Francis X. Hummel: There is no fucking money. The mission's over.
- Captain Frye: Bullshit it's over!
- Major Tom Baxter: You're talking to a General, soldier! Maintain discipline.
- Captain Darrow: I'm not a soldier, Major. The day we took hostages, we became...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tony Todd - Captain Darrow
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel
Gregory Sporleder - Captain Frye
David Morse - Major Tom Baxter

“- T-4 Medic Wade: Corporal, what's your book about?
- Corporal Upham: It's supposed to be about the bonds of brotherhood developed between soldiers during war.
- Private Caparzo: Brotherhood? What do you know about brotherhood?”
Giovanni Ribisi - T-4 Medic Wade
Jeremy Davies - Corporal Upham
Vin Diesel - Private Caparzo

“Boys, the honeymoon's over. From now on you're marines.”
William Bendix - Pvt. Aloysius K. "Smacksie" Randall

“What, you don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?”
Keenan Wynn - Col. 'Bat' Guano

“See that kid? The one dreaming to serve his country. That Jarhead is me.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“- Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: [approaching Highway] Just what the hell do you think you're doing?
- Highway: Just enjoying the view, sir.
- Maj. Malcolm A. Powers: Well, you disobeyed an order. I told you to stay in contact and not take this hill without me. Damn it! Get on your feet, Highway!
- Highway: With all due respect, sir, you're beginning...” (continue)(continue reading)
Everett McGill - Major Powers
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“- Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Mr. Coonan, our boys are submarine sailors, not combat marines.
- Marine Maj. Coonan: The boys onboard that U-boat are sailors too. Your men'll be ready, Lieutenant. I'll train them myself.
- Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: You've come to the right boat.”
Matthew McConaughey - Lt. Andrew Tyler
Keith David - Maj. Matthew Coonan
Bill Paxton - Lt. Cmdr. Mike Dahlgren

“- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: You are quite a soldier.
- Saigo: No, just a simple baker.”
Ken Watanabe - General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Kazunari Ninomiya - Saigo

“Look, just because some man in a red coat hands you a sword it doesn't make you a hero!”

Anna Popplewell - Susan Pevensie

“- Tom Dodge: Men, at ease. I'd like to introduce you to the newest member of our crew, Lt. Emily Lake. Emily is part of a pilot program to test the feasibility of women serving on submarines. She's going to be our diving officer.
- Stepanak: Can she do a one-and-a-half inward back in the layout position?
[laughter]
- Tom Dodge: All right, look,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kelsey Grammer - Tom Dodge
Bradford Tatum - Stepanak

“Some of you think you have problems because you're against the war. You demonstrated in school... you wear peace symbols on your steel, and you have attitudes. I'm orphan, my brother's queer, the city of Chicago got the clap from my sister, Mom drinks, Dad coughs blood, I have ringworm, immersion foot, the incurable crud and the draft ruined my...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dylan McDermott - Sgt. Adam Frantz

“Any soldier I've ever served with would say that one death is service enough.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Colter Stevens

“I'm not sending a bunch of fresh young kids to die for a people they know nothing about. I'm asking them to die for freedom and they're ready to do it and that's why they're heroes.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“They call it the Fetterman massacre, after the officer who swore that with 80 men he could wipe out the entire Sioux nation. It was no massacre. Them soldiers were stupid, and they rode to their deaths.”
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Kate Bighead

“- Sgt. Hulka: Men, welcome to the United States Army. I'm Sergeant Hulka. I'm your drill sergeant. Before we proceed any further, we gotta get something straight. Your mamas are not here to take care of you now. It's just you, me, and Uncle Sam. And before I leave you, you're gonna find out that me and Uncle Sam are one in the same.
- John:...” (continue)(continue reading)

Warren Oates - Sgt. Hulka
Bill Murray - John