War quotes

“- Thao: What was it like to kill someone?
- Walt Kowalsky: You don't want to know.”
Bee Vang - Thao
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalsky

“- David Kenyon Webster: He should have killed himself three years ago. Saved us a lot of trouble.
- Lewis Nixon: Yeah, he should have. But he didn't.”

Eion Bailey - David Kenyon Webster
Ron Livingston - Lewis Nixon

“- Captain Benjamin L. Willard: Terminate the Colonel?
- General Corman: He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops.
- Jerry, Civilian: Terminate with extreme prejudice.
- Colonel Lucas: You understand, Captain, that this mission...” (continue)(continue reading)
Martin Sheen - Captain Benjamin L. Willard
G.D. Spradlin - General Corman
Jerry Ziesmer - Jerry, Civilian
Harrison Ford - Colonel Lucas

“Didn't think I'd get to see anybody get shot in this war.”
Spike Jonze - Conrad Vig

“I'm at war with the world and everybody in it.”
Jon Voight - Oscar "Manny" Manheim

“- Tjaden: How do they start a war?
- Albert: Well, one country offends another.
- Tjaden: You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?”
Slim Summerville - Tjaden
William Bakewell - Albert

“Germany has declared war on the Jones boys.”
Julian Glover - Walter Donovan

“In the field we had a code of honor, you watch my back, I watch yours. Back here there's nothing!”

Sylvester Stallone - Rambo

“What were you trying to prove by going to war? Your place was here with your family. I loved you, but that wasn't enough, was it? You want to leave not because of the war, you want to leave me.”

Nicole Kidman - Grace Stewart

“The nights are always beautiful that time of year. But you were no safer at night. And the long hours of stillness worked on your fears. Night was the time you wondered what the hell you were doing here... and whether or not you'd get your balls blown off tomorrow. You could do some pretty ugly thinking at night. For some of us, the nights were...” (continue)(continue reading)
R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner

“I think the real obscenity comes from raising our youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty, and yet it is heroic to go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity.”
Woody Harrelson - Larry Flynt

“If there's one thing I can't stand seeing, it's Americans fighting Americans.”
Dan Aykroyd - Sgt. Frank Tree

“A few things about the Vietnam War have become clear. It was a war that never should have begun, and a country we never should have entered. And as thousands of victims died without really understanding why. Mainly because the reasons for the war were beyond any rules of logic.”
Chuck Norris - John T. Booker

“I have to tell you, I have some real problems with this whole thing despite how much we need it. I'm concerned that too much power will end up in the hands of too few. It's always in somebody's best interest to promote enemies real or imagined.”

Robert De Niro - Bill Sullivan

You said "Go to war to protect your way of life". This is your way of life. Isn't it? And if there ain't no war, then you, my friend, can go home and prematurely take up golf. Because there ain't no war but ours.

Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“- John Converse: Don't they say this is where everybody finds out who they are?
- Ray Hicks: Yeah? What a bummer for the gooks.”

Michael Moriarty - John Converse
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.”
Denzel Washington - Hunter

“My father came back from the Korean War with his brains so scrambled, he thought he was Jesus! They put him in a nuthouse for five years, when he came out, he didn't think he was Jesus no more, he thought he was God. Which made me Jesus. This shit got pretty heavy.”
Charlie Barnett - Tyrone

My granddad, old Bill Farrell, drove us to drink with his stories about the war and how he fought to put the "Great" into Britain. He said fighting at football was nothing compared to fighting with the Germans... Although, he was right. We're an island race. It's what we do best. It's not about color or race, it's just the buzz of being in the... (continue)(continue reading)
Danny Dyer - Tommy Johnson

“- Brent Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau: What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow.
- Stuart Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau: War! Isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yankees actually want a war?”

George Reeves - Brent Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau
Fred Crane - Stuart Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau

“Not a single member of Congress wanted to sacrifice their child for the war in Iraq. And who could blame them? Who would want to give up their child?”
Michael Francis Moore - Narrator

“- Jennings: Dr. Meadows, just for the record, I don't agree with any of this. Those people's lives are at stake.
- Dr. Meddows: Don't you think I know that? This isn't one of you text-book exercises, Mr. Jennings. This is an experiment in biological warfare, or hadn't you noticed? That organism is potentially the greatest breakthrough in weapons...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Axelrod - Jennings
Joe Seneca - Dr. Meddows

“Maybe if you'd had a horse under you over there in North Africa instead of one of them there tanks, you wouldn't have got shot up the way you was and sent home.”

Robert Homans - Pop - Doorman

"Dumbo". Sure be good to get my mind off things for a while.

Robert Stack - Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

“At night, there's a breeze. The river is beautiful. You could be forgiven for thinking there was no war; that the gunshots were fireworks; that only pleasure matters. A pipe of opium, or the touch of a girl who might tell you she loves you.”

Sir Michael Caine - Thomas Fowler