106 Movie Quotes about Soldiers (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

Memorable quotes about soldiers, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 You know, there's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

12 English prisoners! Notice I do not say English soldiers. From the moment you surrendered, you ceased to be soldiers.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

13 War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Sean Bean as Odysseus in Troy

14 Perhaps the kings were too far behind to see. Soldiers won the battle.

Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy

15 Gee... my dream soldier!

Priscilla Lane as Jean Sherman in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

16 They work at a place where you have to wear camouflage or you might get shot!

Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men

17 They don't look like soldiers. They don't act like soldiers. Why should they be expected to fight like soldiers?

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

18 No. The greatest troops of all time.

BD Wong as Li Shang in Mulan (1998)

19 Hey, I didn't see you in church on Sunday, soldier. You had something more important to do? Not on Sunday, you don't. Not anymore.

Josh Hartnett as Eversmann in Black Hawk Down

20 Easier to send your crab-brained soldiers, burn my home!

Stephen Garlick as Jen The Gelfling in The Dark Crystal (1982)