Taps
1981
Brian Moreland: Honor doesn't count for shit when you're looking at a dead little boy.
Brian Moreland: Sir, how could they do this? General Harlan Bache: With the stroke of a pen, sir. Their field of honor was a desktop.
General Harlan Bache: Was I scared! I must have lost fifty pounds, all of it brown.
Alex Dwyer: What the hell were you doing back there? David Shawn: At least I had your ass over the grinder and it's okay enough to thank me, shithead! Brian Moreland: Hut! What's the problem? Alex Dwyer: The problem is that this asshole just shot the town!
David Shawn: Brian, Dungeons and Dragons game tonight? Brian Moreland: Can't. (David flips Alex the finger) Alex Dwyer: Have a good day.
(Firing machine gun) David Shawn: It's beautiful, man!
(the cadets have taken over the academy) Master Sergeant Kevin Moreland: Let me tell 'em it was growing pains - the wrong execution of the right idea. Brian Moreland: "The wrong execution of the right idea"?
Colonel Kerby: You're not a soldier! I'm a soldier, with the career goal of all soldiers - staying alive in situations where it ain't all that easy to do! You're a death-lover. Some sorry son of a bitch has got you convinced that dying for a cause is oh, so romantic. Well, that's the worst kind of all the kinds of bullshit there is!
David Shawn: (about firing his assault rifle at the townies and cops, to facilitate their escape) I saw my duty, and I did it.
Parent: Sergeant, we aren't in the Army. Master Sergeant Kevin Moreland: No need for apologies.
Brian Moreland: I don't ever want to see what I just saw out there.
J.C. Pierce: (the truck won't start) Aw, shit! Alex Dwyer: Want me to check under the hood? J.C. Pierce: For what? Alex Dwyer: I'll know when I get there, won't I?