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War22 quotes

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979 Terminate...with extreme prejudice. — Civilian · 1979 Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969 You're talking about mass murder, General, not war! — President Merkin Muffley · 1964 Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room! — President Merkin Muffley · 1964 I am in a world of shit, yes, but I am alive and I'm not afraid. — Private Joker · 1987 All 22 quotes →

Vietnam War8 quotes

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Bill Killgore · 1979 In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane. — General R. Corman · 1979 Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell. — Chris · 1986 I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy...was in us. — Chris · 1986 These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting. — Crazy Earl · 1987 They come from the end of the line, most of 'em—small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Bend, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing. They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? At the bottom of the barrel, they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves "grunts", 'cause a grunt can take it—can take anything. — Chris · 1986 All 8 quotes →

World War II8 quotes

You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business and cousin, business is a-boomin'. — Lt. Aldo Raine · 2009 Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969 The United States is the last country in the world that Japan should fight. — General Kuribayashi · 2006 Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969 I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose! — General George S. Patton · 1969 Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" you won't have to say, "Well...I shoveled shit in Louisiana." — General George S. Patton · 1969 All 8 quotes →

The military6 quotes

I got no fight with any man who does what he's told, but when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. — Sgt. Barnes · 1986 The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle. It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead marines and then you will be in a world of shit because marines are not allowed to die without permission. Do you maggots understand? — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987 Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this, marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever and that means you live forever. — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987 Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969 This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history you will see men fighting for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, all of it, not divided by a line between slave state and free. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here is the place to build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, you're fighting for each other. — Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain · 1993 To be a good soldier you must love the army. To be a good commander you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. — General Robert E. Lee · 1993

American character3 quotes

Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969 Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. — General George S. Patton · 1969 Are all American officers so ill-mannered? — Von Luger 'The Kommandant' · 1963

Americans3 quotes

Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton · 1969 None of you Americans smoke anymore. You all live long, dull, and uninteresting lives. — Firimbi · 2001 Are all American officers so ill-mannered? — Von Luger 'The Kommandant' · 1963

The human condition3 quotes

In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one. — 1st Sgt. Welsh · 1998 Have faith in your Creator, my son, death comes to us all. — Father Dupree · 1957 For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph—a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning, that all glory is fleeting. — General George S. Patton · 1969

Chain of command2 quotes

I got no fight with any man who does what he's told, but when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. — Sgt. Barnes · 1986 I don't gripe to you, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a ranger. — Captain Miller · 1998

Communism2 quotes

I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964 Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face? — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964

Communist plots2 quotes

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face? — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964 It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual, certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core commie works. — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964

Death2 quotes

I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it. — Private Witt · 1998 Have faith in your Creator, my son, death comes to us all. — Father Dupree · 1957

Equality2 quotes

There is no racial bigotry here! I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops, or greasers! Here, you are all equally worthless! — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987 This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history you will see men fighting for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, all of it, not divided by a line between slave state and free. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here is the place to build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, you're fighting for each other. — Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain · 1993

Individual vs. the collective2 quotes

Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this, marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever and that means you live forever. — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987 Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969

Marines2 quotes

The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle. It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead marines and then you will be in a world of shit because marines are not allowed to die without permission. Do you maggots understand? — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987 Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this, marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever and that means you live forever. — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987

Military strategy2 quotes

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy…the fear to attack! — Dr. Strangelove · 1964 To be a good soldier you must love the army. To be a good commander you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. — General Robert E. Lee · 1993

Political paranoia2 quotes

Soldiers2 quotes

They come from the end of the line, most of 'em—small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Bend, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing. They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? At the bottom of the barrel, they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves "grunts", 'cause a grunt can take it—can take anything. — Chris · 1986 But you realize every time you suit up, every time we go out, it's life or death. You roll the dice...and you deal with it. — Sergeant JT Sanborn · 2008

Aggression1 quote

I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding on to anything except the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and we're gonna kick him in the ass. We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose! — General George S. Patton · 1969

American Civil War1 quote

This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history you will see men fighting for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, all of it, not divided by a line between slave state and free. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here is the place to build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, you're fighting for each other. — Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain · 1993

Bigotry1 quote

There is no racial bigotry here! I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops, or greasers! Here, you are all equally worthless! — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987

Brothers in war1 quote

When I go home people'll ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? Why, you some kinda war junkie?" I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the man next to you, and that's it. That's all it is. — Hoot · 2001

Communist infiltration1 quote

Communists1 quote

It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual, certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core commie works. — Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper · 1964

Cowards1 quote

I won't have cowards in my army. — General George S. Patton · 1969

Deterrence1 quote

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy…the fear to attack! — Dr. Strangelove · 1964

Doing the right thing1 quote

Always do what is right...because it is right. — Baron Nishi · 2006

Doomsday machine1 quote

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. — Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson · 1964

Dying1 quote

Dying for one's country1 quote

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. — General George S. Patton · 1969

Facing death1 quote

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