War quotes

“- David Lightman: What is the primary goal?
- Joshua: You should know, Professor. You programmed me.
- David Lightman: Oh, come on. What is the primary goal?
- Joshua: To win the game.”
Matthew Broderick - David
James Ackerman - Joshua

Headquarters still didn't buy my analysis of the situation. Hell, they had "experts" sitting in air-conditioned offices in Saigon who understood the war better than any one in the front line. We had asked for ammunition and reinforcements. What we got was the mail run, a few cases of beer, and a VD film... There were times when we all wondered... (continue)(continue reading)
R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner

“Don't try to win this war all by yourself.”
John Wayne - Capt. Jim Gordon

“I'm sure you'll all agree with me if I said that now is the time for all of us to stop all this nonsense, face facts, get down to brass tacks, forget about the war and go fishing.”

Fredric March - Al Stephenson

“Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this: Marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means you live forever.”

R. Lee Ermey - Gny. Sgt. Hartman

“The smart enemy attacks you exactly where you think you are safe.”
Colm Feore - Adm. Husband E. Kimmel

“What difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?”
Sean Penn - 1st Sgt. Welsh

“It's our country, Ben, we made every inch of it! Look at the rest of Africa, it's a mess... It's like in war. You have to choose sides. You are not one of them and they don't want you to be!”

Janet Suzman - Susan

“Disneyland? Fuck, man, this is better than Disneyland!”

Sam Bottoms - Lance B. Johnson

“- Cole Younger: The one time that one of us comes up with an idea...
- Jesse James: A bad idea.
- Cole Younger: I got us through the war all right.
- Jesse James: And nearly got hanged in peacetime.”
Scott Caan - Cole Younger
Colin Farrell - Jesse James

“- Adrian: My life with you is war.
- Diana Guzman: Maybe. Maybe life is just war period.”
Santiago Douglas - Adrian
Michelle Rodriguez - Diana Guzman

“- Maj. John Reisman: It'll be more fun than you've had in years.
- Arlen Dregors: Hand grenade and hookers? That ain't my style.
- Maj. John Reisman: But shooting an officer in the back of the head is?”

Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman
Ricco Ross - Arlen Dregors

“Is that why you're here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can have chopper parades in the sky?”
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“That's what this war is all about. Men are fighting and dying to save all the pink bits for you ungrateful little twerps.”

Barbara Pierson - Teacher

“- Captain: Take pictures of the crew returning, not putting out to sea.
- Lt. Werner: Why?
- Captain: They'll have grown beards by then. It would shame the Tommies to see mere boys give them Hell. Baby faces. Ones that should still suck mama's breast. I feel ancient around these kids, like I'm on some Children's Crusade.”
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte
Herbert Grönemeyer - Lt. Werner - Correspondent

“They burned the flag and they demonstrated against us; it's on the cover of the paper today. They have no respect. They have no idea what's going on over there, mom - the men that are sacrificing their lives. People are dying every day over there, and nobody back here even seems to care. It's a bunch of goddamn shit if you ask me!”
Tom Cruise - Ron Kovic

“Until now, the war has been conducted with honor and bravery with the ideals of truth and justice in the best traditions of mankind... until this moment.”
Pip Donaghy - Inner Party Speaker

“- Laurel Weaver: You don't want to eat me. I'm a very important person on my planet. Like a queen, a goddess even. There are those who worship me. I'm not saying this to impress you, I'm just warning you it could start a war.
- Edgar: War? Good. That means more food for my family. All 78 million of them. That's a lot of mouths to feed, Highness.”

Linda Fiorentino - Laurel Weaver
Vincent D'Onofrio - Edgar

“As early as 1961, they knew Kennedy was not going to go to war in South-East Asia. Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies, and something's underway, but it has no face, yet everybody in the loop knows.”
Donald Sutherland - X

“By now we'd come to look at all replacements as dead men who temporarily had the use of the arms and legs. They came and went so fast and so regularly that sometimes we didn't even learn their names. Truth is, after a while, we sort of avoided getting to know them.”
Robert Carradine - Pvt. Zab - 1st Squad

“- Schaffer: Look, Major, this is primarily a British operation. I'm an American. I don't even know why the hell I'm here.
- Maj. Smith: Lieutenant, you're here because you're an American.”
Clint Eastwood - Schaffer
Richard Burton - Maj. Smith

“- George Halley: You scared?
- Lloyd Hart: Yes I am.
- George Halley: No heart, huh?
- Lloyd Hart: At least I haven't got any heart for this. I thought this business would be over with before I got here.”

Humphrey Bogart - George Hally
Jeffrey Lynn - Lloyd Hart

“There'll be another, new war opening soon in a theater near you.”
Mel Gibson - Gene

“My dear wife, you get something twisted out of your insides by all this blood, filth, and noise. I want to stay changeless for you. I want to come back to you the man I was before.”

Ben Chaplin - Pvt. Bell

“- Kane: Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?
- Jedediah Leland: The Inquirer already has.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland