Army quotes

“We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts!”

Bill Murray - John

“God is going to have to answer to His maker for this part of the country.”

Harry Ruby

“There are four types of people who join the military. For some, it's a family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next, you have those who just need a job. Then there's the kind who want a legal means of killing other people.”
Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher

“They are now face-to-face with the most fearsome military machine in the history of man, and I intend to use it and be back on base in time for the playoffs.”

Bruce Willis - General William Devereaux

“- Major General Thomas F. Waverly: I got along very well in the Army without you.
- Emma Allen: It took 15,000 men to take my place.”
Dean Jagger - Major General Thomas F. Waverly
Mary Wickes - Emma Allen

“There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“- Hodges: You ever had a pissed-off Marine on your ass?
- Sokal: Is that a threat?
- Hodges: Oh, yes, sir.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hodges
Bruce Greenwood - Sokal

“- Sgt. Emil Foley: You can forget it! You're out!
- Zack Mayo: Don't you do it! Don't! You... I got nowhere else to go! I got nowhere else to… I got nothin' else.”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Sgt. Emil Foley
Richard Tiffany Gere - Zack Mayo

- Recruiter: Now, are either of you homosexuals?
- John: You mean, like, flaming, or...
- Recruiter: Well, it's a standard question we have to ask.
- Russell: No, we're not homosexual, but we are willing to learn.
- John: Yeah, would they send us someplace special?
- Recruiter: I guess that's "no" on both. Now if you could just give Uncle Sam... (continue)(continue reading)

William Lucking - Recruiter
Bill Murray - John
Harold Ramis - Russell

“- Maj. Henrich Prinz: You Americans, you always have so much of everything. No matter. Eventually you have to surrender.
- Lt. Leak: I don't think so.”
Joachim Paul Assböck - Maj. Henrich Prinz
Jay Rodan - Lt. Leak

“I like sub commanders. They have no time for bullshit, and neither do I.”
Jon Voight - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“If I were going to be careful, I'd have joined the Coast Guard.”
Paul Sanchez - Ramos

“- Lieutenant Joyce: I'm sorry, Sir. I thought you were the enemy.
- Commander Shears: Well, I'm an American, if that's what you mean.”
Geoffrey Horne - Lieutenant Joyce
William M. Holden - Shears

“- Maj. Warden: I belong to a rather rum group called Force 316. Our headquarters is up in the botanical gardens.
- Commander Shears: Protecting rare plants from the enemy?”
Jack Hawkins - Major Warden
William M. Holden - Shears

“- Sgt. Schulz: How do you expect to win the war with an army of clowns?
- Lt. James Skylar Dunbar: We sort of hope you'd laugh yourselves to death.”
Sig Ruman - Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz
Don Taylor - Lt. James Dunbar

“We are the fucking US military. We practically invented everything!”
Anthony Michael Hall - Greg Pulver

“Wars aren't fought by nations or by armies. Wars are fought by men. There are two types of general in the American military. There are those who believe they can win in the face of all evidence to the contrary. And there are those who know they can't. Unfortunately for the world, it's the believers who climb to the top of the ladder. It's guys...” (continue)(continue reading)
Scoot McNairy - Sean Cullen

“Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.”
Adam Driver

“In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.”
Adam Driver

“You've been shot 5 times for your country and you can't even afford to send your kids to college.”
Oscar Isaac - Santiago 'Pope' Garcia

“Three months ago, I was cutting grass on my front yard. The mailman shows up with a letter from the army. Now I'm here, and no idea where I'm going to end up.”
Jovan Adepo - Boyce

“The army cuts my disability pension because they said that the plate in my head wasn't big enough.”
Randy Quaid - Cousin Eddie

My father left me when I was a child. The British Army became my home. They took me as a cleaner, in the kitchens, cleaning pots. They used to beat me. "Beat this wall, Amin". "Dig the latreen, Amin". And now, here I am. The President of Uganda. And who put me here, huh? It was the British.
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

“- Colonel Isaac Johnson: You've got nothing on me. I'm covered. Call the Joint Chief.
- Attorney General Russert: That won't be necessary, Colonel, as I have already received no less than a dozen calls from highly-ranked and powerfully-placed individuals telling me to let you go. But the joy of checks and balances in our government is that I can...” (continue)(continue reading)
Danny Glover - Colonel Isaac Johnson
Brian Markinson - Attorney General Russert

“- Turner: Some folks still wonder why you left.
- Jack Reacher: Let's just say I woke up one morning and the uniform didn't fit.”
Cobie Smulders - Turner
Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher