Soldiers quotes

“- Prosecutor: Is it standard for U.S. personnel to have sex with prisoners and kill them?
- Sgt. Tony Meserve: The prisoner tried to give away the squad's position.
- Prosecutor: She was ill and coughing from the abuse of you and your men. She shouldn't have been there to jeopardize your position! You dragged her out and raped her! And then you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Vyto Ruginis - Prosecutor
Sean Penn - Sgt. Tony Meserve

“I gave my life for this country and what's it done for me? Huh? What's it done for me?”
Casey Affleck - Rodney Baze Jr.

“I'm going there to end this war. Wait for me until I return. Thing's will be different, I promise. Please wait for me.”

Hayden Christensen - Anakin Skywalker

“This is Shinyuki. I found him in the jungle when I bought the estate, dressed in the uniform of a Japanese soldier, unaware for many years that the war was over. He never says a word.”
Don Stewart - Victor Ortega

“To be a soldier and a coward is to be an impostor, a menace to the men whose lives are in your hands.”
John Clements - Harry Faversham

“I could be working with my brother right now. I could sleep with my wife every night; take my kids to school every morning. Do you know why I don't? Because I love this job. I thank God for every day he gives me in the corps.”

Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“Masturbation. Rereading of letters from unfaithful wives and girlfriends. Cleaning your rifle. Further masturbation. Rewiring Walkman. Arguing about religion and meaning of life. Discussing in detail, every woman the Marine has ever fucked. Debating differences, such as left- vs. right-handed masturbation. Further cleaning of rifle. Studying of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“You see that man? You and he are brothers! He depends on you! You depend on him! You never leave a man behind!”

Lou Diamond Phillips - Monfriez

“You've got a record like a roll of toilet paper. AWOL, desertion of post, striking an NCO, refusing to take orders, drunk on duty, assaulting a superior officer, resulting in his death. And yet you managed to get yourself the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Bronze Star. You've got a lot of talent. You just don't know how to use it. But I do.”

Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman

“- Xerxes: It isn't wise to stand against me. Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
- King Leonidas: And I would die for any one of mine.”
Rodrigo Santoro - Xerxes
Gerard Butler - King Leonidas

“Remember Marine, ours is not to question why, ours is but to do or die. Semper Fi. Over.”
Adam Beach - Ben Yahzee

“This year we explored the failure of democracy. How our social scientists brought our world to the brink of chaos. We talked about the veterans, how they took control and established the stability that has lasted for generations since. You know these facts, but have I taught you anything of value this year?”
Michael Ironside - Jean Rasczak

“I never saw Bozz again. Some guys said he died in Nam, but he was never listed. Some said he just disappeared over there. One guy called me and said he thought he saw him in Mexico a few years ago with a beautiful woman. But knowing Bozz, he'd be pissed off I was talking about him anyway.”
Matthew Davis - Pvt. Jim Paxton

“Dead soldiers - live bastards!”
Tony Doyle - Colonel Hadley

“There is no use for a dead soldier.”
Kazunari Ninomiya - Saigo

“- Secretary of State John Hay: General, you were one of the finest cavalry officers in the Confederacy.
- Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler: Let me tell you something... Bedford Forrest had 32 horses shot out from under him, but he killed 33 Yankees. Forrest was better!”
R. Lee Ermey - Secretary of State John Hay
Gary Busey - Gen. Joseph Wheeler

“Are you a soldier? Good soldiers get fucked to death!”
Jean-Louis Costes - Fistman

“The reason that Iran-Contra happened is because nobody did anything substantial about Watergate. And the reason that Watergate happened is that there were no consequences from the Bay of Pigs. They are all the same operatives, didn't you notice? The foot soldiers in the Bay of Pigs, the plumbers that got busted at Watergate, the gunrunners in...” (continue)(continue reading)
Giancarlo Esposito - Bugs Raplin

“- General Weidling: My Führer, as a soldier I suggest we try to break through the encirclement. During the fight for Berlin we've already lost 15-20,000 of the younger officers.
- Adolf Hitler: But that's what young men are for.”
Michael Mendl - General Weidling
Bruno Ganz - Adolf Hitler

“To the officers: may we all be killed, wounded or promoted.”
Sam Elliott - Capt. Bucky O'Neil

“- Tom Cody: Ey, you always walk around packed, huh?
- McCoy: I told you, I'm a soldier.
- Tom Cody: Yeah, well don't go pointin' that thing at me, I wouldn't like it.
- McCoy: I don't go pointin' it unless I'm gonna use it.
- Tom Cody: Yeah. Right.”
Michael Paré - Tom Cody
Amy Madigan - McCoy

“Dinger. Ex-Para, Chain smoker. Comment? My God, my country, my Harley Davidson. Not necessarily in that order.”

Steve Nicolson - Dinger

“- Sergeant JT Sanborn: Welcome to Bravo Company. Welcome to Camp Victory.
- Staff Sergeant William James: Ah, Camp Victory? I thought this was Camp Liberty.
- Sergeant JT Sanborn: Ah, no, they changed that about a week ago. 'Victory' sound' better.”
Anthony Mackie - Sergeant JT Sanborn
Jeremy Renner - Staff Sergeant William James

“They want us to be good little boys now so we can fight some war for them in the future. Some war they'll decide on. We'd rather fight our own war right now.”

Timothy Hutton - Brian Moreland

“- Soldier: Dead. He's dead.
- Kat: Why did you risk your life bringing him in?
- Soldier: But it's Behm, my friend.
- Kat: It's a corpse, no matter whose it is. Now, don't any of you ever do that again.”

Louis Wolheim - Kat