War quotes

“- Morgan Hess: They said there are one of two outcomes of an invasion. One: they fight, and are defeated, and have to return again with full forces hundreds or even thousands of years later.
- Rev. Graham Hess: What's two?
- Morgan Hess: They win.”

Rory Culkin - Morgan Hess
Mel Gibson - Rev. Graham Hess

“- Finnerty: Your first act as president is going to be bombing the White House?
- Raphelson: Believe me. Our country is stronger than one house.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Finnerty
Richard Jenkins - Raphelson

“- Oskar Schindler: In every business I tried, I can see now, it wasn't me that failed. Something was missing. Even if I'd known what it was, there's nothing I could have done about it because you can't create this thing. And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure.
- Emilie Schindler: Luck?
- Oskar Schindler: War.”
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler
Caroline Goodall - Emilie Schindler

“- Miller: What happened to your leg?
- Freddy: My leg is in Iran. Since 1987. Me too, I fight for my country.”
Matt Damon - Miller
Khalid Abdalla - Freddy

“Going to war is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It could be fun.”
Christian Camargo - Colonel John Cambridge

“Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight, we dine in Hell!”
Gerard Butler - King Leonidas

“- President Barbara Adams: Where is the sanity in bombing millions of innocent people?
- Sir Mortimer Chris: It shut Japan up, didn't it?”
Loretta Swit - President Barbara Adams
Peter Cook - Sir Mortimer Chris

“If they refuse to remove the missiles, we retain the option to strike and invade. A sneak attack would be counter to what the United States stands for. It leaves us no room to maneuver, and the inevitable Soviet response would force us into a war.”

Dylan Baker - Robert McNamara

“The opposite of war isn't peace! It's creation!”
Anthony Rapp - Mark Cohen

“Think if one of their ships resists the inspection, and we shoot out its rudder, and board. They shoot down one of our planes, in response, so we bomb their anti-aircraft sites in response to that, and they attack Berlin, so we invade Cuba. And they fire their missiles... And we fire ours.”
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy

“The fellas say that if you don't wanna go to Nam, you better pray to Jesus or talk to Roland Bozz.”

“Each returning serviceman will get his job back when the war is won. And you girls and women, you'll be going home. Back to being housewives and mothers as you promised to do when you came to work with us. Your lives will return to normal.”
Stephen Tobolowsky - French deMille

“- Oskar Schindler: Better this month than last?
- Itzhak Stern: Yes.
- Oskar Schindler: Any reason to think next month will be worse?
- Itzhak Stern: The war could end.”

Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern

“- Captain America: What about the others? Are you planning a rescue mission?
- Col. Chester Phillips: Yeah, it's called winning the war.”
Chris Evans - Captain America
Tommy Lee Jones - Col. Chester Phillips

“- Claire: You chose the wrong side.
- Marcel Jazy: In twenty years we shall know who's right.”

Joanna Cassidy - Claire
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Marcel Jazy

“People say they don't like to talk about war because it brings up the bad memories and nightmares and everything. I don't believe that. I believe they don't talk about it because nobody wants to hear it.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Skip Caldwell

“- Anne Hilton: When a man goes off to war, we have to be... the telegram came just a few minutes ago. It was addressed to you, but I opened it.
- Jane Hilton: Did it say he was missing, or what? I don't care if he's wounded, I don't care what's happened to him, if only...
- Anne Hilton: No, dear, it said he... died in action at Salerno.”

Claudette Colbert - Anne Hilton
Jennifer Jones - Jane Hilton

“The worst war in all history is over. Now is the time to win this fragile peace.”
Matthew Fox - General Bonner Fellers

“I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!”
Matthew Modine - Pvt. J.T. 'Joker' Davis

“Wanna know what a blast wound looks like? What an OR in the desert smells like? What really happens to them? How they die? You really wanna know? You want us to come back like nothing ever happened. You don't want to get your hands dirty with the details.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Will Marsh

“In space, all warriors are cold warriors.”
Christopher Plummer - Chang

“For a time, we lived in harmony. But like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war. A war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death.”
Peter Cullen - Optimus Prime

“- Orlov: The West is decadent - and divided! It has no stomach to risk our atomic reprisals! Throughout Europe daily demonstrations demand unilateral nuclear disarmament.
- General Anatoly Gogol: I see no reason to risk war to satisfy your personal paranoia and thirst for conquest!”
Steven Berkoff - Orlov
Walter Gotell - Gogol

“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

“It is getting harder and harder to find suicide bombers. And all the really good ones are gone.”
Geoffrey Arend - Mohammed