Corporal Upham: "War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man." Captain Miller: I guess that's Emerson's way of findi...
Captain Miller: Private, I'm afraid I have some bad news for ya. Well, there isn't any real easy way to say this, so, uh, so I'll just say it. Your brothers are dead. We have, uh, orders to come get you, 'cause you're going home. Pvt. James Frederick...
[lining up a rifle shot] Private Jackson: Be not Thou far from me, O Lord.
[lining up a rifle shot] Private Jackson: O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me.
Captain Miller: [on Omaha Beach] Bangalors up the line!Bagalors up the line! Sergeant Horvath: Heads up, bangers comin' your way. Private Caparzo: [a soldier's helmet is struck by a bullet and he then takes it off] Jesus, lucky bastard. [the other so...
Upham: So where are you from, Captain? What'd you do before the war? Captain Miller: What's the pool up to? Upham: [chuckles] Uh... up over three hundred, sir. Captain Miller: Well, when it gets up to five hundred, I'll give you the answers and we'll...
Upham: What's FUBAR? Mellish: Oh, it's German. [he chuckles derisively] Mellish: Yeah. Upham: Never heard of that.
Captain Miller: Caparzo, get that kid back up there! Private Caparzo: Captain, the decent thing to do would be take her over to the next town. Captain Miller: We're not here to do the decent thing, we're here to follow fucking orders!
Private Reiben: You want to explain the math of this to me? I mean, where's the sense in risking the lives of the eight of us to save one guy? Captain Miller: Anyone wanna answer that? Medic Wade: Reiben, think about the poor bastard's mother. Privat...
Captain Miller: Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her, and how I'll ever be able to, tell about days like today. Ahh, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care. The ...
Captain Miller: [to the squad while pointing at Caparzo's dead body] THIS is why we don't pick up children!
Corporal Upham: "Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die." Mellish: La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
[talking about Capt. Miller] Corporal Upham: Reiben, so you even know where he went to school? Private Reiben: Cap'n didn't go to school, they assembled him at OSC outta spare body parts of dead GIs. Private Caparzo: You gotta pay attention to detail...
Captain Miller: They're tankbusters sir. P-51s. Private Ryan: Angels on our shoulders.
Sergeant Horvath: Stars. Lieutenant Dewindt: Yeah, Brigadier General Amend, deputy commander, 101st. Some fucking genius had the great idea of welding a couple of steel plates onto our deck to keep the general safe from ground fire. Unfortunately, th...
Captain Miller: It's like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
Private Reiben: You wouldn't shoot the kraut and now you're gonna shoot me? Sergeant Horvath: He's better than you.
Captain Miller: Things have taken a turn for the surreal.
