War quotes

“The war is over. Once more we can be friends.”
Sab Shimono - Colonel Hirota

“- Kyle Reese: There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.
- Sarah Connor: I don't understand.
- Kyle Reese: Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Biehn - Kyle Reese
Linda Hamilton - Sarah Connor

“Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. Forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc.”
Sir Christopher Lee - Saruman

“If you side with the Nazis, Thomas, then we're at war.”
Robert Sean Leonard - Peter Müller

“Truth is the first casualty of war.”
George Hamilton - William Randolph Hearst

“Betrayals in war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.”

Juliette Binoche - Hana

“I've hung my hat and here it stays till they knock it off with a bayonet. From now on, Mary, I'm going to run this war!”
Walter Huston - Abraham Lincoln

“War implies extreme government because wars are fought to enforce rules or ideals, even freedom. But other people ideals forced on someone else, even if it is something like freedom, is still a rule; not anarchy.”
Matthew Lillard - Stevo

“- Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears: We're Americans, we've never lost a war!
- Jason: What about 'Nam, sir?
- Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears: 'Nam? We lost that war at home, sonny.”
Paul Sorvino - Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears
Scott Bloom - Jason

“- Timothy Pickering: Why on Earth would you disband the army when we are preparing for war?
- John Adams: Why on Earth do we need an army when we are preparing for peace?”
John Keating - Timothy Pickering
Paul Giamatti - John Adams

“- Capt. Dennis Dearborn: And if we don't drop these bombs right in the pickle barrel there are going to be a lot of innocent people killed.
- 1st Lt. Luke Sinclair: What's the difference? They're all Nazis!”
Matthew Modine - Capt. Dennis Dearborn
Tate Donovan - 1st Lt. Luke Sinclair

“The catastrophic events you have just witnessed are, in all likelihood, less severe than the destruction that would actually occur in the event of a full nuclear strike against the United States. It is hoped that the images of this film will inspire the nations of this earth, their peoples and leaders, to find the means to avert the fateful day.”

“Let me sum up the entire situation in a nutshell: there are five of us, and four billion of them. They have Strategic Air Command, nuclear powered submarines, and John Wayne. We have this.”

Tommy Madden - Giggywig

“The Cylon War is long over, yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom. The cost of wearing the uniform can be high, but sometimes it's too high.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“- Stephen Klein: I don't know what happened to Lawrence. I was close to Harrisonville when it started. There must have been five or six of them to the north, and... a whole string of them to the south.
- Jim Dahlberg: They must have hit every missile silo from Sedalia to Eldorado Springs.”
Steve Guttenberg - Stephen Klein
John Cullum - Jim Dahlberg

“Over and over again we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our enemies, but it has been in vain. We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called to meet the challenge of a principle, which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world.”

Colin Firth - King George VI

“Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.”
Martin Sheen - Captain Benjamin L. Willard

“Without some damn war to fight, then the warrior may as well be dead, Stallion!”

Carl Weathers - Apollo Creed

“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
Ben Kingsley - Cosmo

“Your first step sir, will be to demand that the Soviet withdraw the missiles within 12 to 24 hours. They will refuse. When they do you will order the strikes, followed by the invasion. They will resist and be overrun. They will retaliate against another target somewhere else in the world, most likely Berlin. We will honor our treaty commitments...” (continue)(continue reading)

Len Cariou - Dean Acheson

Be honest, Captain, warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be? No peace in our time. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends".

Christopher Plummer - Chang

“You know what Einstein said about World War III? He said he didn't know how they were gonna fight World War III, but he knew how they would fight World War IV: with sticks and stones.”
John Lithgow - Joe Huxley

“- John F. Kennedy: Well, who the hell authorized this missile test?
- Robert F. Kennedy: Who do you think? God knows what this is gonna communicate to the Soviets!
- Kenny O'Donnell: Communicate with the Soviets? We can't communicate with the Pentagon and it's just across the goddamn river!”
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy
Steven Culp - Robert F. Kennedy
Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell

“- Ron Kovic: That was the war, communism, the incidious evil! They told us to go.
- Mrs. Kovic: Yes, yes that's what they told us.
- Ron Kovic: Thou shalt not kill, Mom. Thou shalt not kill women and children! Thou shalt not kill! Remember? Isn't that what you taught us? Isn't that what they taught us?
- Mrs. Kovic: Stop it! Stop it!”
Tom Cruise - Ron Kovic
Caroline Kava - Mrs. Kovic

“- Peter Howard: We are citizens of an American nation! And our rights are being threatened by a tyrant three thousand miles away!
- Benjamin Martin: Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?”

Joey D. Vieira - Peter Howard
Mel Gibson - Benjamin Martin