War quotes

“The war was the best thing that ever happened to me. Because when you have money, then, for the first time in your life, you understand it, what money does for you. Where before all you understood was not having it? Money allows you to be who you truly are.”
Tobey Maguire - Tully

“- Lucy Carrigan: I would lay in front of a tank if it would bring Max back and end this war.
- Jude: Yeah, it wouldn't.”

Evan Rachel Wood - Lucy Carrigan
Jim Sturgess - Jude

“He still fights. The bombs they're dropping tonight are editorials the Germans will understand.”
Claude Rains - Capt. Freycinet

- V.I.N.CENT.: As an old war hero once said, "Damn the torpedos! full speed ahead!".
- B.O.B.: He also said something about going in harm's way.
Roddy McDowall - V.I.N.CENT.
Slim Pickens - B.O.B.

“I've always courted danger. During the late war - when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln... and General Phil Sheridan - well, sir, I fought mid shot and shell and cannon roar...”
Thomas Mitchell - Dr. Josiah Boone

“Most things go in and out of style, that is with the exception of war of course.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Insp. "Tequila" Yuen

The "big red dog" is diggin' in our backyard, and we are justified in shooting him!

Kevin Conway - Gen. Curtis LeMay

“You seem to think warfare an English invention. Have you ever heard of Chandragupta Maurya? He slaughtered all the armies left in India by Alexander the Great.”
Eduardo Ciannelli - Guru

“- Claire Simone: Would you stop speaking French? Or whatever language you are speaking?
- James Granger: Well, if it weren't for us, you'd... you'd be speaking German.
- Claire Simone: No. If it was not for you, I might be dead. But I would still be speaking French.”
Cate Blanchett - Claire Simone
Matt Damon - James Granger

“It doesn't require courage to send others to battle and death.”
William Powell - Lev Andreyev

“All of our lives, we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it. Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We have not come here by chance. I do not believe in chance. I believe it is our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds for each and every one of us, the very meaning of our lives.”
Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“- Craig Patrick: Hockey players from Boston and Minnesota.
- Doc Nagobads: Our own private Cold War.”
Noah Emmerich - Craig Patrick
Kenneth Welsh - Doc Nagobads

“All of you that have never been listened to before and have seen your family killed, huh, you now have something that stands for you. You now have something that stands for you!”
Idris Elba - Commandant

“- Eddie Dane: How'd you get the fat lip?
- Tom Reagan: Old war wound. Acts up around morons.”
J.E. Freeman - Eddie Dane
Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan

“- Eamon de Valera: They call us murderers.
- Michael Collins: War is murder! Sheer, bloody murder!”
Alan Rickman - Eamon de Valera
Liam Neeson - Michael Collins

“My eyes are ceramic. Caught a bazooka round at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa? The one without the Indians.”
Lloyd Bridges - Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson

“Borneo. For most of you, Borneo doesn't exist. An imaginary name on a map, like Tibet or Tierra del Fuego. The ends of the earth. But I know the island exists. You see, I was there near the end of the second world war. My war. My youth. I was a botanist before. I've been a botanist ever since.”

Nigel Havers - Botanist

“- Keller Coleman: What was it like?
- Earl: France? I could tell it was, uh... well, it had been a pretty little country. But by the time we chased the Germans off of it, it was all beaten to hell. I think about goin' back. They probably got it all fixed up by now. I'd kinda' like to see it again.”
Breckin Meyer - Keller Coleman
Eddie Jones - Earl

“That's the thing about war Mannix, people die.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Major Marquis Warren

“- Maj. Gen. V.E. Hubik: Posse Comitatus, sir.
- Sheriff Buelton: Did you call me a pussy communist?
- Maj. Gen. V.E. Hubik: The U.S. Army is, by an act of congress; Posse Comitatus act, specifically precluded from enforcing civilian law outside the military reservation.
- Sheriff Buelton: Pussy communist?
- Maj. Gen. V.E. Hubik: That means I do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sandy Ward - General Hubik
G.D. Spradlin - Sheriff Buelton

“- Paul De Smedt: Harry, come on, that's a grave.
- Harry Hawkes: Yeah, well, Europe is a grave.”
Matthias Schoenaerts - Paul De Smedt
Ralph Fiennes - Harry Hawkes

“- Edward Wilson: If we continue down this road, there will be a third world war. I dont think either of us wants a real war.
- Ulysses: What would you do for a living then?”
Matt Damon - Edward Wilson
Oleg Shtefanko - Ulysses

“[In sign language] If we go to war, we could lose all we've built. [Spoken aloud] Home. Family. Future.”
Andy Serkis - Caesar

“Our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.”
Lew Ayres - Paul

“All that noise you hear isn't static - it's death, coming to London. Yes, they're coming here now. You can hear the bombs falling on the streets and the homes.”

Joel McCrea - John Jones