War quotes

“The history of my family, like the history of civilization, is the history of war. The getting into it, and outta it, and over it... and Vietnam should have been no different. But it was. It's final battle was fought on an unrecognized front, far from the shellings and the napalm and the guns and the shooting... it was a battle my brother Jeremy...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Karen Collier

“I do not believe my death will help win the war. It seems that people at home no longer care anyway. I die not so much for love of country, as for love of countrymen.”

Jeffrey Jones - Fischer

“- Keller Coleman: What were you doin' in France?
- Earl: Folks over there were havin' a world war. I got invited.”
Breckin Meyer - Keller Coleman
Eddie Jones - Earl

“Before this war began, many of my regiment had never seen a Negro. Now the roads are choked with the dispossessed. We fight for men and women whose poetry is not yet written but which will presently be as enviable and as renowned as any.”
Matthew Broderick - Col. Robert Gould Shaw

“- Charles VII: We are grateful for your pas efforts, but now your task is done. Now is the time for negotiation.
- Joan of Arc: Peace will only be got with the English by the end of a lance.
- Charles VII: Why are you so bloodthirsty? Do you enjoy it?
- Joan of Arc: No.
- Charles VII: Diplomacy is far more civilized, far safer, and far cheaper.”
John Malkovich - Charles VII
Milla Jovovich - Joan of Arc

“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
Margaretta Scott - Roxana

“Listen, you promise me something, ok? Just if you're ever in trouble, don't be brave. You just run, ok? Just run away.”

Robin Wright - Jenny Curran

“- Capt. Freycinet: It's a fine day.
- Renault: Any day that takes us closer to France is a fine day.”
Claude Rains - Capt. Freycinet
Philip Dorn - Renault

“The peace loving people of Vietnam, my ass. A more bellicose race of people I have never known.”

James Caan - Sgt. Clell Hazard

“Nothing the Party says is true. Nothing the Party does is good. Even the war itself isn't real. The Party wants you to believe we are at war so as to channel your aggressions away from the rightful target, the Party.”
John Boswall - Goldstein

“The face of war is ugly. It's not for the young.”
Walter Brennan - Karp

“The misfortunes of war!”
Chuck Norris - Col. James Braddock

“- Lira: You have a limp noodle!
- Eddie: It was a war wound!”

Mariangela Melato - Lira
Richard Kiel - Eddie

“He say plane fly overhead, drop value. I no care. In Beirut, plane fly over head, drop bomb. I like these planes better.”
Costas Kilias - Farouk

“- Eriksson: Can you imagine that? You escape Vietnam and you die from an airline fatality.
- Cpl. Thomas E. Clark: Never happen, Cherry. You survive the Nam, you get to live forever, man.”
Michael J. Fox - Eriksson
Don Harvey - Cpl. Thomas E. Clark

“- Ambassador Trentino: I am willing to do anything to prevent this war.
- Rufus T. Firefly: It's too late. I've already paid a month's rent on the battlefield.”
Louis Calhern - Ambassador Trentino
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Well, this thing could park a coupla hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it till it was all over.”
Jeffrey Jones - Skip Tyler

If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking German! Singing "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles".

Kevin Kline - Otto

“If we cannot trust each other, how can we bring back Cold War together?”

Nicholas Woodeson - Sergei

“Write this down. Are you naïve enough to think containing German militarism has anything to do with this war? Don't you understand that England and France own the world economy and Germany just wants a piece of it? Keep writing, Miss Bryant. Miss Bryant, can't you grasp that J. P. Morgan has loaned England and France a billion dollars? And if...” (continue)(continue reading)
Warren Beatty - John Reed

- Bob Collier: I know you had a rough time over there.
- Jeremy Collier: "Over there"! You can't even say it.
- Bob Collier: What?
- Jeremy Collier: Vietnam!
Martin Sheen - Bob Collier
Emilio Estevez - Jeremy Collier

“Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy… the fear to attack!”
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove

“In accordance to the principles of Doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous.”

Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“How adorable. The actors are going to play war with me.”
Robin Sachs - Sarris

“Pilot to crew: take a good look at Pearl Harbor. Maybe it's something you'll want to remember.”
John Ridgely - Pilot