War quotes

“Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, John...” (continue)(continue reading)
Linda Hamilton - Sarah Connor

“The WOPR spends all it's time thinking about World War III. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, it plays an endless series of WarGames using all available information on the state of the world. The WOPR has already fought World War III as a game time and time again. It estimates Soviet responses to our responses to their responses and so...” (continue)(continue reading)
Irving Metzman - Richter

“- Hercules: People are gonna get hurt, aren't they?
- Hades: Nah. I mean, you know, it's a possibility. It happens 'cause... it's war, but what can I tell you. Anyway, what do you owe these people, huh?”
Tate Donovan - Hercules
James Woods - Hades

“- Annabelle's Brother: Fort Sumter has been fired upon.
- Annabelle's Father: Then the war is here.
- Annabelle's Brother: Yes, dad, and I'm going to be one of the first to enlist.”
Frank Barnes - Annabelle's Brother
Charles Henry Smith - Annabelle's Father

“- Stephen Falken: Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?
- Jennifer: Yeah, of course.
- Stephen Falken: But you don't anymore.
- Jennifer: No.
- Stephen Falken: Why?
- Jennifer: Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie.
- Stephen Falken: Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless! But back at the war room, they believe you can win...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Wood - Falken
Ally Sheedy - Jennifer

“Comrades, we have good reasons to know our country is at war. In our small village alone, 30 people have been injured. Eleven people have been killed. But his is not a time for mourning - it is time for revenge. We will divide into two groups, each to do his duty from this day until death.”
Carl Benton Reid - Boris Simonov

“They scattered. They scattered! Give me a civilized war! An enemy I can find and beat! An enemy who fights by the rules!”

Gary Cole - George Armstrong Custer

“You can march like the white man, you can talk like him. You can sing his songs, you can even wear his suits. But, you ain't never gonna be nothing to him, than an ugly ass chimp... in a blue suit.”
Denzel Washington - Pvt. Trip

“- Capt. John Colby - The Players: England: The whole bloody war's a regrettable mistake.
- Major Karl Von Steiner - The Germans: I agree.”
Sir Michael Caine - Capt. John Colby - The Players: England
Max von Sydow - Major Karl Von Steiner - The Germans

“I have killed for my country, or whatever, and I don't feel good about it. Because there's not enough reason, man, to feel a person die in your hands, or to see your best buddy get blown away.”
Jon Voight - Luke Martin

“- Myra: This hateful war.
- Roy Cronin: I suppose it is. And yet there's - I don't know - a certain amount of excitement about it too. Round the corner of every second, the fascination of the unknown. We're both facing it, this instance.”
Vivien Leigh - Myra
Robert Taylor - Roy Cronin

“I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of shit... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid.”

Matthew Modine - Pvt. J.T. 'Joker' Davis

“I should hate to see our country endangered by my underwear.”

Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“- Dr. Rawlins: You admire the Japanese?
- Jim: Well, they're brave, aren't they?
- Dr. Rawlins: That's important, is it, Jim?
- Jim: It's a good thing if you want to win a war.
- Dr. Rawlins: But we don't want them to win, do we. Remember, we're British.”
Nigel Havers - Dr. Rawlins
Christian Bale - Jim

“Y'know, I seen me a mermaid once. I even seen me a shark eat an octopus. But I ain't never seen no phantom Russian submarine.”
Larry Ferguson - Chief of the Boat

“Gotta come down out of the clouds gentlemen, and get into the business... of winning the war.”
Paul Newman - Gen. Leslie R. Groves

“- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: So, Mr. Jackson, still the rational man? How many people have perished in your logical little war?
- The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson: There are rules in life! We cannot fly to the moon. We cannot defy death. We must face facts, not folly. You don't live in the real world.”
John Neville - Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen
Jonathan Pryce - The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson

“I make soldiers out of scum like you, and I don't do it gently. You're the sloppiest looking lot I've ever seen. It's up to me to prevent you from becoming a disgrace to the Regiment. And I will prevent that if I have to kill half of you with work. But the half that lives will be soldiers. I promise you!”

Brian Donlevy - Markoff

“We must meet this threat with our courage, our valor, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and always!”
Bruce Gray - Sky Marshall Dienes

Americans, all you care about is your own damn pilots! What happens when the fighting starts again? Will America recommit its forces to stop a major war? No, you don't have any control over that little detail, do you? You might have helped save your man today, Reigart, and I emphasize "might", but you risk the lives of thousands tomorrow.
Joaquim de Almeida - Piquet

“We're on another useless joyride at the cost of mere millions to the US taxpayer.”

Gabriel Macht - Stackhouse

“Those of us who did not survive, they were the best of us.”

Christine Lahti - Gisella Perl

“- Michael: I'd only been in jail 13 hours, I thought 'Nam couldn't be any worse.
- Jacob: Shows how little you knew.
- Michael: Yeah, really.”
Matt Craven - Michael
Tim Robbins - Jacob

“They've gone missing. I mean, war does have a habit of doing that to people.”
Stuart Wilson - Walker

“A new power is rising. Its victory is at hand. This night the land will be stained with the blood of Rohan. March to Helm's Deep. Leave none alive. To war!”

Sir Christopher Lee - Saruman