War quotes

“In a war as such there are no civilians.”
Bruno Ganz - Adolf Hitler

“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

“Your kind will never understand war, hobbit.”
Hans Conried - Thorin Oakenshield

“There happens to be a war going on everywhere but between your two ears, you dumb ox.”

Tobey Maguire - Jake Roedel

“- Margaret Drummond: I was in China when the Japanese invaded and I think that the people they despised the most were Europeans and prisoners then women.
- Adrienne Pargiter: Well that's us. All three.”
Pauline Collins - Margaret Drummond
Glenn Close - Adrienne Pargiter

“I've been thinkin' about the Domino Effect. Now, if Vietnam falls, what does that mean China's next?”
Jane Brucker - Lisa Houseman

“- Jean-Luc Picard: If your issues are with me, then deal with me. This has nothing to do with my ship, nothing to do with the Federation!
- Shinzon: Oh, but it does. We will no longer bow before anyone as slaves. Not the Romulans and not your mighty Federation. We are a race bred for war... and conquest.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard
Tom Hardy - Shinzon

“- Prosecutor: War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.
- Chicolini: Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.
- Prosecutor: No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!
- Chicolini: Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!”
Charles Middleton - Prosecutor
Chico Marx - Chicolini

“At the outbreak of World War II, Germany increased its U-boat production by 1,000%, mass-producing 17 new U-boats a month. Hitler knew the key to winning the war in Europe was to control the Atlantic. By 1942, German U-boats, working in groups called wolf packs, sunk over 1,000 Allied ships. Their success gave Germany a decisive advantage. They...” (continue)(continue reading)
Til Schweiger - Kapitän Jonas Herdt

“War don't ennoble men. It turns them into dogs... poisons the soul.”
Jim Caviezel - Pvt. Witt

“The truth was, in 1914, Germany doesn't want war. Yeah, there's an arms race, but it's Britain who's leading it. So, why does no one admit this?”
Stephen Campbell Moore - Tom Irwing

“- Edward Wilson: I could take the government off your back if you could help us.
- Joseph Palmi: You're the guys that scare me. You're the people that make big wars.
- Edward Wilson: No, we make sure the wars are small ones, Mr. Palmi.”

Matt Damon - Edward Wilson
Joe Pesci - Joseph Palmi

“- Peter Breeze: Besides, we're gonna be in this war, soon, pull your own weight.
- Nick Lassiter: I'm standing in a frame, Breeze, you're gonna wrap me in the flag, too.”
Joe Regalbuto - Peter Breeze
Tom Selleck - Nick Lassiter

“- Yolande of Aragon: Don't worry, Charles. If God is still with her, she will be victorious.
- Charles VII: But her army is so much smaller.
- Yolande of Aragon: Then her faith will have to be bigger.”
Faye Dunaway - Yolande of Aragon
John Malkovich - Charles VII

“I use the law allowing for the seizure of property in a war knowing it applies only to the property of governments and citizens of belligerent nations. But the South ain't a nation, that's why I can't negotiate with'em.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“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

“The point of replacing Hitler is to negotiate the truce with the Allies. The Allies, I suspect would be more amenable to a truce if we offer it to them before they get to fucking Berlin!”
Bill Nighy - General Friedrich Olbricht

“- Grace Rohan: This war, has put an end to decent things.
- Mac: We can't change what's past. Not even the war can do that.
- Grace Rohan: We did the proper thing. But we lost love. And that's sad, Mac.”
Sarah Miles - Grace Rohan
Derrick O'Connor - Mac

“- Ben Meechum: Would you like to die in action, Dad?
- Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum: It's better than dying of piles!”
Michael O'Keefe - Ben Meechum
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum

“- Red Skull: You could have the power of the gods! Yet you wear a flag on your chest and think you fight a battle of nations! I have seen the future, Captain! There are no flags!
- Captain America: Not my future!”
Hugo Weaving - Red Skull
Chris Evans - Captain America

“So many youngsters already gone forever. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters back home must have a difficult time retaining any belief in the internal rightness of things.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“- David Bannon: So much misery, man against man. They kill each other. They have no faith. I used to think the world would change. But it hasn't.
- Abby Quinn: No, I guess it hasn't.”
Jürgen Prochnow - David Bannon
Demi Moore - Abby Quinn

“When this war is over, there will be a reckoning.”
Nicole Kidman - Ada Monroe

“- 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

“I can't accomplish a goddamn thing of any worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pestilential war!”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln