Posted on Mar 17, 2015
What are some of your favorite quotes from military-based Movies?
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"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think"
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think"
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"Matt 'Axe' Axelson: [while sighting in a Taliban fighter] You can die for your country, I'm gonna live for mine."
"Matt 'Axe' Axelson: I understand. And I don't care. I care about you. I care about you. I care about you. I care about you."
"Michael Murphy: Negative. We just got the opportunity to make hell *fucking* strong contact with our front from the other side. Job well done."
"Matt 'Axe' Axelson: I understand. And I don't care. I care about you. I care about you. I care about you. I care about you."
"Michael Murphy: Negative. We just got the opportunity to make hell *fucking* strong contact with our front from the other side. Job well done."
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“They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away from us now!”
- Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
- Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
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Sgt. Barnes: Why do you smoke this shit? So as to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this shit. I am reality. There's the way it ought to be. And there's the way it is. Elias was full of shit. Elias was a crusader. Now, 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. And I ain't gonna allow that in any of you. Not one.
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"I have a letter written a long time ago to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston, so bear with me.
'Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement by the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five... sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, Abraham Lincoln.'
That boy is alive. We are going to find him. And we are going to get him the hell out of there."
Who even writes like that anymore? And, at a close second (and yes, I know it was more about the passing of the 13th and not primarily about the Civil War, but it was still a great movie and the time was defined in and by that war, so I count it):
"I decided that the Constitution gives me war powers, but no one knows just exactly what those powers are. Some say they don't exist. I don't know. I decided I needed them to exist to uphold my oath to protect the Constitution, which I decided meant that I could take the rebels' slaves from them as property confiscated in war. That might recommend to suspicion that I agree with the rebs that their slaves are property in the first place. Of course I don't, never have, I'm glad to see any man free, and if calling a man property, or war contraband, does the trick... why I caught at the opportunity. Now here's where it gets truly slippery. I use the law allowing for the seizure of property in a war knowing it applies only to the property of governments and citizens of belligerent nations. But the South ain't a nation, that's why I can't negotiate with 'em. If in fact the Negroes are property according to law, have I the right to take the rebels' property from 'em, if I insist they're rebels only, and not citizens of a belligerent country? And slipperier still, I maintain it ain't our actual Southern states in rebellion but only the rebels living in those states, the laws of which states remain in force. The laws of which states remain in force. That means, that since it's states' laws that determine whether Negroes can be sold as slaves, as property - the Federal government doesn't have a say in that, least not yet - then Negroes in those states are slaves, hence property, hence my war powers allow me to confiscate 'em as such, so I confiscated 'em. But if I'm a respecter of states' laws, how then can I legally free 'em with my Proclamation, as I done, unless I'm cancelling states' laws? I felt the war demanded it, my oath demanded it. I felt right with myself, and I hoped it was legal to do it, I'm hoping still. Two years ago I proclaimed these people emancipated, 'then, hence forward and forever free.' But let's say the courts decide I had no authority to do it. They might well decide that. Say there's no amendment abolishing slavery. Say it's after the war, and I can no longer use my war powers to just ignore the courts' decisions, like I sometimes felt I had to do. Might those people I freed be ordered back into slavery? That's why I'd like to get the Thirteenth Amendment through the House and on its way to ratification by the states, wrap the whole slavery thing up, forever and aye. As soon as I'm able. Now. End of this month. And I'd like you to stand behind me. Like my cabinet's most always done."
Kind of a reminder that sometimes, even the greatest and most just measures of our current laws required a heavier hand and authoritarian-like approach to overcome the injustice and inequity of ironclad legalities set from unenlightened, draconian ideologues.
'Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement by the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five... sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, Abraham Lincoln.'
That boy is alive. We are going to find him. And we are going to get him the hell out of there."
Who even writes like that anymore? And, at a close second (and yes, I know it was more about the passing of the 13th and not primarily about the Civil War, but it was still a great movie and the time was defined in and by that war, so I count it):
"I decided that the Constitution gives me war powers, but no one knows just exactly what those powers are. Some say they don't exist. I don't know. I decided I needed them to exist to uphold my oath to protect the Constitution, which I decided meant that I could take the rebels' slaves from them as property confiscated in war. That might recommend to suspicion that I agree with the rebs that their slaves are property in the first place. Of course I don't, never have, I'm glad to see any man free, and if calling a man property, or war contraband, does the trick... why I caught at the opportunity. Now here's where it gets truly slippery. I use the law allowing for the seizure of property in a war knowing it applies only to the property of governments and citizens of belligerent nations. But the South ain't a nation, that's why I can't negotiate with 'em. If in fact the Negroes are property according to law, have I the right to take the rebels' property from 'em, if I insist they're rebels only, and not citizens of a belligerent country? And slipperier still, I maintain it ain't our actual Southern states in rebellion but only the rebels living in those states, the laws of which states remain in force. The laws of which states remain in force. That means, that since it's states' laws that determine whether Negroes can be sold as slaves, as property - the Federal government doesn't have a say in that, least not yet - then Negroes in those states are slaves, hence property, hence my war powers allow me to confiscate 'em as such, so I confiscated 'em. But if I'm a respecter of states' laws, how then can I legally free 'em with my Proclamation, as I done, unless I'm cancelling states' laws? I felt the war demanded it, my oath demanded it. I felt right with myself, and I hoped it was legal to do it, I'm hoping still. Two years ago I proclaimed these people emancipated, 'then, hence forward and forever free.' But let's say the courts decide I had no authority to do it. They might well decide that. Say there's no amendment abolishing slavery. Say it's after the war, and I can no longer use my war powers to just ignore the courts' decisions, like I sometimes felt I had to do. Might those people I freed be ordered back into slavery? That's why I'd like to get the Thirteenth Amendment through the House and on its way to ratification by the states, wrap the whole slavery thing up, forever and aye. As soon as I'm able. Now. End of this month. And I'd like you to stand behind me. Like my cabinet's most always done."
Kind of a reminder that sometimes, even the greatest and most just measures of our current laws required a heavier hand and authoritarian-like approach to overcome the injustice and inequity of ironclad legalities set from unenlightened, draconian ideologues.
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"From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered, ---
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother..."
King Henry V, talking to his men before The Battle of Agincourt: 25 October, 1415. Made into numerous movies and plays; written by William Shakespeare.
But we in it shall be remembered, ---
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother..."
King Henry V, talking to his men before The Battle of Agincourt: 25 October, 1415. Made into numerous movies and plays; written by William Shakespeare.
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Kelly's Heroes:
Oddball: We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone's knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris... or maybe even New York. Then we can move in and stop them. But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days.
Oddball: We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone's knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris... or maybe even New York. Then we can move in and stop them. But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days.
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"Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups"-lead terrorist Under siege part 2
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"Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window. When I go home people'll ask me, 'Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?' You know what I'll say? 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 men next to you, and that's it. That's all it is." -Hoot, Blackhawks Down-
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hot damn! That quote always get me! SGT (Join to see) good topic. Unfortunately I have too many favorites to pick just the one.
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