War quotes

“This is Vietnam, you understand? Even the women have got balls! Instead of them communist armies putting books in their hands and sending them to school, they wrap 'em up in dynamite and they send them off to kill G.I.'s. You got that? That's the enemy, Murphy. That's the enemy! Get it together!”
Wings Hauser - Cpl. Joseph L. DiNardo

“We who have seen war will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night we will always hear the screams.”
Barry Pepper - Joe Galloway

“This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who fought in it.”
Sean Bean - Odysseus

“It is well that war is so terrible... or we should grow too fond of it.”
Robert Duvall - Gen. Robert E. Lee

“Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words! That's what this war is all about!”

Mary Kay Bergman - Sheila Broflovski

“The war is lost... But if you think that I'll leave Berlin for that, you are sadly mistaken. I'd prefer to put a bullet in my head.”
Bruno Ganz - Adolf Hitler

“Vietnam took my boy, and I didn't understand why we were there in the first place.”
Forest Whitaker - Cecil Gaines

“- Bozz: My friend here wants to go for the experience, Sergent. Says he ain't scared.
- Sergeant Cota: Good luck, Private. You ask me, I'll stick with the smart and the scared.”
Colin Farrell - Pvt. Roland Bozz
Cole Hauser - Staff Sgt. Cota

“The future lies in victory, not in freedom. The war will be continued until it's won, that's our destiny.”
Alexander Knox - Wilhelm Grimm

“- Cpl. Stringer: We're doing our best, sir.
- Col. Harker: Your best isn't good enough, Corporal Stringer.”

Chet Hood - Cpl. Stringer
David Roger Harris - Col. Harker

“- John Milner: You're gonna kick some ass?
- Terry The Toad: Kick ass, take names, and eat Kong for breakfast.”

Paul Le Mat - John Milner
Charles Martin Smith - Terry the Toad

“- Arlen Dregors: Recruiting new victims, Major? Heard all about your last mission. Yeah, twelve go out, only one comes home. Those are lousy odds.
- Maj. John Reisman: It's a lousy war. This is a lousy prison. And you have a lousy future.”
Ricco Ross - Arlen Dregors
Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman

Assassination's hard to justify when you're not at war, it's generally called "murder".
Kate Ashfield - Rachel

“- Dr. Margo Hunt: Dr. Kurtz, I'm unfamiliar with the academic guidelines at Radcliffe, but I would think any major university would consider warring on the United States and eating prisoners of war a serious breach of ethics.
- Dr. Kurtz: Always the cautious scholar, huh, Dr. Hunt?”
Shannon Tweed - Dr. Margo Hunt
Adrienne Barbeau - Dr. Kurtz

“- Michael: Hey, Nick, do you think we'll ever come back?
- Nick: From Vietnam?
- Michael: Yeah.
- Nick: You know something, the whole thing, it's right here. I love this fucking place. I know that sounds crazy. If anything happens, Mike, don't leave, don't leave me over there. You got, you've got to, hey, just don't leave me. You've got to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert De Niro - Michael
Christopher Walken - Nick

“- Admiral William Adama: Politics. As exciting as war. Definitely as dangerous.
- President Laura Roslin: Though in war, you can only get killed once. In politics it can happen over and over.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama
Mary McDonnell - President Laura Roslin

“- Willie Morris: Does it ever itch or hurt, like it's still there?
- Jack Morris: Yes, it hurts.
- Willie Morris: But they gave you a medal for it, didn't they?
- Jack Morris: I'd rather have the leg.”

Frankie Muniz - Willie Morris
Kevin Bacon - Jack Morris

“You think that nuclear war is unthinkable because once it starts, no-one can win. Well, you're wrong!”
Peter Cook - Sir Mortimer Chris

“You're acting like a pack of rabid dogs. And that, gentlemen, simply will not do. Not if you expect to defeat the vampires on their own ground. Not if you expect to survive at war.”
Michael Sheen - Lucian

“War is like a big machine that no one really knows how to run and when it gets out of control it ends up destroying the things you thought you were fighting for, and a lot of other things you kinda forgot you had.”
Lexi Randall - Lidia Joanne Simmons

- Vinnie Conrad: The thing that bothers me is that damn "launch-on-warning".
- Bruce Gallatin: What's that?
- Vinnie Conrad: That's when one side tells the other that they're gonna fire their missiles as soon as they think the other guy's missiles are already on their way.
- Joe Huxley: You know. Use 'em or lose 'em.
Stan Wilson - Vinnie Conrad
Jeff East - Bruce Gallatin
John Lithgow - Joe Huxley

“What's this war in the heart of nature? Why does nature vie with itself? The land contend with the sea? Is there an avenging power in nature? Not one power, but two?”
John Dee Smith - Pvt. Train

“Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.”
George Takei

“- Otto: You know your problem? You don't like winners.
- Archie Leach: Winners?
- Otto: Yeah. Winners.
- Archie Leach: Winners, like North Vietnam?
- Otto: Shut up. We didn't lose Vietnam. It was a tie!”
Kevin Kline - Otto
John Marwood Cleese - Archie Leach

“Don't talk at me boy as if I've never seen a war!”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow