War quotes

My kids are gonna ask me: "Daddy, what's the worst thing you saw in the war?". After this, there's no contest!

Doug E. Doug - SP4 Harvey (H.A.) Ashford

- Captain: It's been 15 hours. He'll never do it. I'm sorry.
- Lt. Werner: They made us all train for this day. "To be fearless and proud and alone. To need no one, just sacrifice. All for the Fatherland". Oh God, all just empty words. It's not the way they said it was, is it? I just want someone to be with. The only thing I feel is afraid.
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte
Herbert Grönemeyer - Lt. Werner - Correspondent

“Bush told the people to rise up against Saddam. They thought they'd have our support. They don't. Now they're getting slaughtered.”
George Clooney - Archie Gates

“In the grand scheme of things, what's one boat? This war's gonna end. It doesn't mean we have to end with it.”
William H. Macy - Chief of Boat Nathan Travers

“I have imagined this moment for a long time. Is it real?”

Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“- Fezzik: You never said anything about killing anyone.
- Vizzini: I've hired you to help me start a war. It's an prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.”
André the Giant - Fezzik
Wallace Shawn - Vizzini

“Of course one soldier more or less doesn't make any difference, you know. That's why I'm making thousands and thousands of troops for England. See? Good strong fellows who won't be afraid as I was. I was afraid. That's why I ran away, you know.”

Morton Lowry - Traumatized Young Soldier

“I was Mount Rose American Teen Princess 1945. We were at war with the Japs. Didn't even get to keep my damn tiara. Had to turn it in for scrap.”
Claudia Wilkens - Iona Hildebrandt, 1945 Winner

“- Joseph Pulitzer: Know what I was doing at your age, boy? I was in a war. The Civil War.
- Jack Kelly: Yeah, I heard of it. So, did you win?
- Joseph Pulitzer: People think war is about right or wrong and not power.
- Jack Kelly: Yeah, I heard of that too. I don't just sell your papes, Joe. Sometime I read 'em.”
Robert Duvall - Joseph Pulitzer
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“- Bob Roland: Message from the front, sir.
- Rufus T. Firefly: Oh, I'm sick of messages from the front. Don't we ever get a message from the side?”
Zeppo Marx - Bob Roland
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“No atheists in foxholes.”
David Thewlis - Keith Jennings

“- Richard D. Winters: Nix, what are you going to do in battle?
- Lewis Nixon: Oh, I have every confidence in my scrounging abilities, and I have a case of Vat 69 hidden in your footlocker.”

Richard D. Winters - Himself
Ron Livingston - Lewis Nixon

“In chess and in war the key to winning is to anticipate what your opponent will do in advance. Think two moves ahead. The art of asymmetrical warfare is less about inflicting damage than provoking a response.”
Raad Rawi - Nathir

“Blade was still out there somewhere, doing what he did best. He was a weapon. His life was a war. And everybody knows the war never ends.”
Ryan Reynolds - Hannibal King

“I'm afraid of what's ahead. I'm afraid of another war. Your father died when he was young. He died for England, Johnny. But you're half American. You're my son. You belong to America too, not only England.”

Irene Dunne - Susan Ashwood

“This isn't just any island to them. This is Japanese soil, sacred ground. Twelve thousand Japanese defenders in eight square miles, they will not leave politely. It's up to us to convince them.”
Neal McDonough - Captain Severance

“- Grimlock: Me Grimlock love Kup's war stories.
- Kup: You're living one, now.”
Gregg Berger - Grimlock
Lionel Stander - Kup

“- Lt. Jeff Knight: What's it like?
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: What's it like? You go out on patrol, and you kill a few of them. Then they kill a few of yours. Then you go back to base. Eat. Sleep. Next day, same thing. Before you know it, you're either dead, or you're going home. It's good.”
Michael Dudikoff - Lt. Jeff Knight
Robert F. Lyons - Sgt. Michael McNamara

“We've worked up several military scenarios; before I ask General Taylor to take us through the various options, I'd like for us to adopt a rule: if we decide to strike, we must agree now to do it before the missiles become operational, because once they are I don't think we can guarantee getting them all before at least... at least some of them...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dylan Baker - Robert McNamara

“Robert - don't you ever worry the war will be over before the bomb is ready to drop?”
Brian Dennehy - Gen. Leslie Groves

“- Fremen: You will never rid this planet of the Harkonnens with guerilla raids, boy.
- Paul: That is why I am asking you for a hundred of your young men. I wish to teach them the weirding way. So those hundred can come back to you and teach hundreds more. And those hundreds will teach hundreds more. Hundreds will become thousands.”
Alec Newman - Paul Atreides

“Every war is different, every war is the same.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“You get to do what you want. Nobody fucks with you. The only worry you got is dying. And if that happens, you won't know about it anyway.”

Kevin Dillon - Bunny

“- Bung: You reckon we're doing any good by being here?
- Harry: Not much.
- Bung: Why not?
- Harry: Because when we get home we'll be an embarrassment to our great nation, the only bastards who'll want to know about us are the silly buggers in this man's army; let's face it, we have no one else.”

John Hargreaves - Bung
Graham Kennedy - Harry

“Bobby, you gotta go in there and you gotta make them understand... that we have to have an answer tomorrow... because Monday, we go to war.”
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy