“Our job is to make this the finest regiment that the United States ever saw. I needn't tell most of you that a regiment is something more than just six hundred disciplined fighting men. Men die. But a regiment lives on; because a regiment has an immortal soul of its own.”

Errol Flynn - George Armstrong Custer

“- Louis Gendick: These bullies are called Japs and Nazis.
- Danny Lyons: You mean the army.
- Louis Gendick: That won't be running away, Danny. That's real fighting.”

Henry Hall - Louis Gendick
Bobby Jordan - Danny Lyons

“- Ty: I want to join the army you're gathering. I'm not one of these farmers, I'm just travelling with them until I found you.
- Job: Then help me gather up these pumpkin-heads without killing them.”
Vincent Klyn - Ty
Lance Henriksen - Job

“We Marines have no qualms about killing Martians!”
James Karen - Gen. Climet Wilson

“- Scott Dantley: If the army had the guns, we just might be able to stop the killing.
- Pete Helmes: It's a bitch of a problem, isn't it, Jack?
- Jack Issel: Actually, I've been reading that it's the army that's doing most of the killing.”

Michael O'Donoghue - Scott Dantley
Eddie Albert - Pete Helmes
Judge Reinhold - Jack Issel