War quotes

“- Specialist Owen Eldridge: Anyone comes alongside a Humvee, we're dead. Anybody even looks at you funny, we're dead. Pretty much the bottom line is, if you're in Iraq, you're dead. How's a fucking tank supposed to stop that?
- Sergeant JT Sanborn: Would you shut the fuck up, Owen, please?
- Specialist Owen Eldridge: Sorry. Just tryin' to scare...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brian Geraghty - Specialist Owen Eldridge
Anthony Mackie - Sergeant JT Sanborn

“All is fair in love and war, and this is revolution!”
Fred Astaire - Jerry Travers

“Feed the French and kill the Germans.”
Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman

“- Lord W'ruff: The German Chancellor, Sir. He's just invaded France.
- King George VI: Good. about time someone did.”
Leslie Phillips - Lord W'ruff
Harry Enfield - King George VI

“- Willingham: That's George III. You may remember him. He was king during that little temper tantrum you call the Revolutionary War.
- Ralph: Sounds like sour grapes to me, Ced. After all, we did kick your ass.
- Willingham: The loss is entirely yours, or rather, theirs. Try to remember you're an Englishman now.
- Ralph: Okay, but I still think...” (continue)(continue reading)

Peter O'Toole - Willingham
John Goodman - Ralph

“They've been planning this for a million years. They defeated the greatest power in the world in a couple days. Walked right over us. And these were only the first. They'll keep coming. This is not a war. This is an extermination.”
Tim Robbins - Harlan Ogilvy

“- Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
- Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?
- Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.”
Robert Hays - Ted Striker
Julie Hagerty - Elaine Dickinson

“- Bishop Campbell: Do you know when World War II ended?
- Jan: We had a second one?”
Barnard Hughes - Bishop Campbell
Glenn Close - Jan

“In combat, events have a duration of seconds, sometimes minutes. But what you're going through goes on day in and day out. Whether you're ready for it or not, week in, week out. Month after month after month. Whether you're up or whether you're down. You're assaulted psychologically.”

Colm Feore - Richard Scruggs

“- Jim: Bastard! He gave me a mango!
- Basie: I'll give you a whole goddamn fruit salad. There are Frigidaires falling from the sky. It's kingdom come!
- Jim: He was my friend!
- Basie: He was a Jap!
- Jim: The war's over!”

Christian Bale - Jim
John Malkovich - Basie

“- Amir Abdullah: You know what I think? You're stealing gold, that's what I think. We're fighting Saddam and dying, and you're stealing gold.
- Archie Gates: You're wrong.
- Amir Abdullah: They have half a million men in the desert and they send four guys to pick up all this bullion? I don't think so.”
Cliff Curtis - Amir Abdulah
George Clooney - Archie Gates

“I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. They've got factories, shipyards, coalmines... and a fleet to bottle up our harbors and starve us to death. All we've got is cotton, and slaves and... arrogance.”

Clark Gable - Rhett Butler - Visitor from Charleston

“I was never a member of the Nazi Party! I only followed orders. I had nothing to do with the war! I didn't even know there was a war on. We lived in the back, right across from Switzerland. All we heard was yodelling... yoodle le he hoo!”
Will Ferrell - Franz Liebkind

“- Arnold Rothstein: When war comes, the winner will be the one who gets his enemy to trust him.
- Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano: How do I do that?
- Arnold Rothstein: You save his life.”
F. Murray Abraham - Arnold Rothstein
Christian Slater - Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano

“- Parmenion: He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. He consulted his peers in council, among equals! The Macedonian way. He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires.
- Alexander: I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed! Old man, we're in knew worlds.”
John Kavanagh - Parmenion
Colin Farrell - Alexander

“- Hunter: What if Radchenko surrendered and it's over, huh? We launch. They see us, and they launch. Our birds pass each other in the air. Boom. What have you got?
- Cob: Nuclear War.
- Hunter: Nuclear Holocaust.”
Denzel Washington - Hunter
George Dzundza - Cob

“- Carl Jenkins: We're in this war for the species, boys and girls. It's simple numbers. They have more. And every day I have to make decisions that send hundreds of people like you to their deaths.
- Johnny Rico: Didn't they tell you, Colonel? That's what the mobile infantry is good for.”

Neil Patrick Harris - Carl Jenkins
Casper Van Dien - Johnny Rico

“They're inviting us to defeat them! We must oblige them!”

John Neville - Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen

“Every battle must have its dead.”
Errol Flynn - Gunnar Brogge

“Humans... and how I love you talking monkeys for this... know more about war and treachery of the spirit than any angel.”
Viggo Mortensen - Lucifer

“Part of me thinks the kid's right. He asks what he's done to deserve this. He wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home. But then another part of me thinks, what if by some miracle we stay, then actually make it out of here. Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Sizemore - Sergeant Horvath

We don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault cos so many of our people died. And all the mourning's veiled the truth. It's not "lest we forget", it's "lest we remember".

Stephen Campbell Moore - Tom Irwing

“- Penelope Marsh: Will, what happened over there?
- Will Marsh: I don't really remember. You know. It's like a dream. Hazy dream.
- Penelope Marsh: Then tell me. I wanna know.”

Victoria Rowell - Penelope Marsh
Samuel L. Jackson - Will Marsh

“He defrauded the American government of $56 million while we were at war, when we could least afford it. While brave men were dying on the beaches of Normandy, Mr. Hughes was picking the pocket of the American taxpayer.”

Alan Alda - Senator Ralph Owen Brewster

My kids are gonna ask me: "Daddy, what's the worst thing you saw in the war?". After this, there's no contest!

Doug E. Doug - SP4 Harvey (H.A.) Ashford