War quotes

“My loyal subjects, a grave duty confronts us all: to prepare our nation for a war that none of us wants, least of all your queen. We have tried by all means in our power to avert this war.”
Flora Robson - Queen Elizabeth

“Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II.”
George Kennedy

“My goal in coming to Hollywood was to change the way war movies were made.”
Dale Dye

“They look warlike? Jesus Christ, we're lighting off nuclear weapons like it's our own private Fourth of July!”
Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell

“When the war kicks off in Iran, I will be there.”
Omid Djalili

“The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.”
R. Lee Ermey

“The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'”
Edward Herrmann

“One day I'll catch up with you. You want a war? I'll give you a fucking war one arm tied behind me back.”

Malcom McDowell - Gangster 55

“- Debbie Stephens: Jim, this is all a big put on, isn't it? Like Fantasy Island, right?
- Jim Ferguson: Come on, Debbie, it's not that bad. It's only World War I.”

Fiona Hutchison - Debbie Stephens
Alex Hyde-White - Jim Ferguson

“The frontier moves with the sun and pushes the Red Man of these wilderness forests in front of it until one day there will be nowhere left. Then our race will be no more, or be not us.”
Russell Means - Chingachgook

“If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.”
Brendan Fraser

“- Joyce: There's a war going on here, and they don't take prisoners.
- Nick Conklin: What are you talking about?
- Joyce: It's between Sato and an old crime boss named Sugai.
- Nick Conklin: Who else knows about this war?
- Joyce: Counting you and me? Eleven million.”
Kate Capshaw - Joyce
Michael Douglas - Nick Conklin

- Tommy: Hey Bill, did... did you ever kill anybody?
- Bill: What kind of an asshole question is that?
- Tommy: I mean, in... Korea.
- Bill: What "career"?

Steve Buscemi - Tommy
Bronson Dudley - Bill

“Every Navy man with scrambled egg on his chest wants to offload us here and sail to Japan so they can be there for the big finish, tell their kids they captured the Emperor all by themselves.”
Gordon Clapp - General "Howlin' Mad" Smith

“- Gen. Trau: Colonel Braddock, is it not true that during the war there was a price on your head of 5,000 American Dollars?
- Col. James Braddock: It was more like 20,000. Why don't you tell us why there was a price on my head?
- Gen. Trau: For your war crimes, of course.
- Col. James Braddock: For killing assholes like you!”
James Hong - Gen. Tran
Chuck Norris - Col. James Braddock

“- Lt. General Leland Zevo: Put this place on red alert. They're as good as dead.
- Hagenstern: That's your son, sir.
- Lt. General Leland Zevo: War knows no relatives.”
Sir Michael Gambon - Lt. General Leland Zevo
Blake Clark - Hagenstern

“The psychiatrists turned up to check us for signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Turned out they were more strung-out than we were.”
Sean Bean - Andy McNab

“- Col. Harry Burwell: This is not a war for the independence of one or two colonies, but for the independence of one nation.
- Capt. Wilkins: Tell me, Colonel, what nation is that?
- Peter Howard: An American nation!”
Chris Cooper - Col. Harry Burwell
Adam Baldwin - Capt. Wilkins
Joey D. Vieira - Peter Howard

“If they assassinate me, all of Sparta goes to war. Pray they're that stupid. Pray we're that lucky.”

Gerard Butler - King Leonidas

“We have things those computers can never have, like instincts and feelings and moral judgment. You can call me old-fashioned, you can call it whatever you want but I just don't think that in war the action should ever be divorced from the consequences.”
Josh Lucas - Lt. Ben Gannon

“- Austin Powers: Only two things scare me and one of them is nuclear war.
- Basil Exposition: What's the other?
- Austin Powers: Excuse me?
- Basil Exposition: What's the other thing that scares you?
- Austin Powers: Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.”
Mike Myers - Austin Powers
Michael York - Basil Exposition

“- Hodges: I'll make you a deal. If you can tell me right now what the life expectancy was for second lieutenant dropped into a hot LZ in Vietnam in 1968, I'll tell you everything I remember about Ca Lu.
- Major Biggs: One week.
- Hodges: Negative. Sixteen minutes. Sixteen fucking minutes. That's all I remember about Ca Lu.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Hodges
Guy Pearce - Major Biggs

“The reasons we go to war always matter! It's all that matters! It fucking matters!”
Matt Damon - Miller

“Security? The word's become a bloody joke!”
Michael Hordern - Adm. Rolland

“- Senator Jasper Irving: Through precise military action, we will take the essential first step.
- Janine Roth: First step? But what have we been doing for the past six years, Senator? World War II took less than five.”
Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving
Meryl Streep - Janine Roth