War quotes

“- Luc: Sarge, you want me? I am here. Let the girl go!
- Scott: Don't tell me what to do, soldier! I give the orders around here, and you're gonna have to learn that! She's a fucking gook traitor! I gave you an order to kill her, and now you must fulfill that order, Private!
- Luc: Sarge, the war is over.
- Scott: Not for me! Not for her! And...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Luc Deveraux
Dolph Lundgren - Andrew Scott

“War's an argument! Best way to win that argument is to kill the other fella.”
Sam Elliott - Capt. Bucky O'Neil

“- Conrad Brean: You watched the Gulf War, what do you see day after day? The one smart bomb falling down the chimney. The truth? I was in the building when we shot that shot - we shot in a studio, Falls Church, Virginia. One-tenth scale model of a building.
- Stanley Motss: Is that true?
- Conrad Brean: How the fuck do we know? You take my point?”
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“I am sick and tired of filling body bags with your dumb fucking mistakes.”

Dylan McDermott - Sgt. Adam Frantz

“- Sgt. Frank Tree: You know, this year wasn't the big year of the war, '41. I think the really big year is going to be 1942.
- Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell: It's gonna be a long war.”
Dan Aykroyd - Sgt. Frank Tree
Robert Stack - Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

“The Spanish conquest of Mexico. 900 Spanish soldiers under Hernan Cortes defeated 100,000 Aztec warriors! And they did this with Swords! And they raped all the women and took all of the gold.”
Sam Elliott - Capt. Bucky O'Neil

“Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner. Bubba was going to be a shrimping boat captain, but instead, he died right there by that river in Vietnam.”
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“Somewhere in the war there's supposed to be honor. Where's the honor here? Where?”

Spiros Focás - Masoud

“- Terry: I owe you, man.
- Kreese: You don't owe me anything.
- Terry: Oh bullshit. I don't owe you anything? What about Vietnam, huh? How many times did you save my ass?
- Kreese: I don't know. I lost count.”
Thomas Ian Griffith - Terry
Martin Kove - Kreese

- Sgt. Virgil Hoogesteger: I know exactly what I'm gonna do...
- Sgt. Richard "Rascal" Moore: Oh God, Virg, if I have to hear one more word about that stupid restaurant...
- Sgt. Virgil Hoogesteger: It's not stupid! At least I've got a plan! What are you gonna do after the war, huh?
- Sgt. Richard "Rascal" Moore: Come to your restaurant and rob it!
Reed Diamond - Sgt. Virgil Hoogesteger
Sean Astin - Sgt. Richard "Rascal" Moore

“Make no mistake, gentlemen. We are in the fight of our lives, against one of the greatest battalion commanders of the Vietnam War, I shit you not.”

Michael Biehn - Commander Anderson

“- Lt. Archer: General Sloan was so impressed with what we did that he set it up. Foster, do you realize that we took out a communication outpost, captured an enemy stronghold and wiped out an entire company of NVA regulars? Do you believe everything I just said Foster?
- Alvin Foster: Well, yes sir.
- Lt. Archer: Well then, I guess they should...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Whitmore Jr. - Lt. Archer
James Canning - Alvin Foster

“- Mitch Kramer: Er, Mr. Payne. Sir. You know every second that you could let us out early would really increase our chances of survival.
- Mr. Payne: It's like our sergeant told us before one trip into the jungle.
- Mr. Payne: Men!
[the boys jump]
- Mr. Payne: Fifty of you are leaving on a mission. Twenty-five of you ain't coming back.
- Mitch...” (continue)(continue reading)

Wiley Wiggins - Mitch
Julius Tennon - Mr. Payne

“Jesus Palomino, a Nazi! I knew it, you're all in cahoots! Well, let me tell you something, Mr. Heinie Kraut, I fought your kind in the Great War, and we kicked the living shit out of you!”

Slim Pickens - Hollis P. Wood

“- Capt. Cassidy: There was a democratic movement in Japan after the last war. What happened?
- Reserve Officer Raymond: The leaders were assassinated.
- Andy: What about the people?
- Capt. Cassidy: They have no voice now.”
Cary Grant - Capt. Cassidy
John Ridgely - Reserve Officer Raymond
Warner Anderson - Andy

“Any crew member who thinks that they can't handle the situation, can leave the ship right now. Gentlemen, we are at Defcon 3, war is imminent. This the captain. That is all.”
Gene Hackman - Ramsey

“Me, fight in a war man? Fuck no way. Nobody got to do that shit, not in this country.”
Sy Richardson - Lite

- Sgt. Pilot Chris: It's like shooting rats in a barrel.
- Squadron Leader Canfield: You'll be "in a barrel", if you don't watch out for the fighters!

David Griffin - Sgt. Pilot Chris
Sir Michael Caine - Squadron Leader Canfield

“- Major General Franklin Kirby: Keep on the airwaves and let me know if you hear anything unusual.
- Soldier: I'll keep at it. What are you expecting?
- Major General Franklin Kirby: World War Three.”
James Olson - Major General Franklin Kirby
Lenny Juliano - Soldier

“What is more obscene: sex or war?”
Woody Harrelson - Larry Flynt