“- General Castrillon: Our twelve pound cannon arrives tomorrow. Why sacrifice our soldiers trying to take a wall that can be demolished?
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana: General Castrillon, what are the lives of soldiers but so many chickens?”
Castulo Guerra - General Castrillon
Emilio Echevarría - Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana

“Soldiers, no poor sap ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by being all that he can be.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Chip Hazard

“You're not a soldier! I'm a soldier, with the career goal of all soldiers: staying alive in situations where it ain't all that easy to do! You're a death-lover. Some sorry son of a bitch has got you convinced that dying for a cause is oh, so romantic. Well, that's the worst kind of all the kinds of bullshit there is!”
Ronny Cox - Colonel Kerby

“- Sgt. Hastings: My men are soldiers in the United States Cavalry! And they are prepared to die for their country!
- Beauchamp: With all due respect, sir, you're out of your fuckin' mind.”
Adam Baldwin - Sgt. Hastings
James Oscar Lee - Beauchamp

“I gave my life for this country and what's it done for me? Huh? What's it done for me?”
Casey Affleck - Rodney Baze Jr.