The Longest Day Quotes

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Flight Officer David Campbell: The thing that's always worried me about being one of the few is the way we keep on getting fewer.

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[Millen plays the bagpipes as British troops march toward the Germans] Pvt. Clough: There it is, he's at it again! Have you ever heard such a racket in all your life? Private Flanagan: Yeah, it takes an Irishman to play the pipes.

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Brigadier General Norman Cota: I don't have to tell you the story. You all know it. Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die. Now get off your butts. You guys are the Fighting 29t...

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Flight Officer David Campbell: He's dead. I'm crippled. You're lost. Do you suppose it's always like that? I mean war.

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Major General Gunther Blumentritt: [in German] This is history. We are living an historical moment. We are going to lose the war because our glorious Führer has taken a sleeping pill and is not to be awakened. Sometimes I wonder which side God is on...

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Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort: You can't give the enemy a break. Send him to hell.

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Destroyer Commander: You remember it. Remember every bit of it, 'cause we are on the eve of a day that people are going to talk about long after we are dead and gone.

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[to his generals, observing the English Channel] Field Marshal Erwin Rommel: Just look at it, gentlemen. How calm... how peaceful it is. A strip of water between England and the continent... between the Allies and us. But beyond that peaceful horizon...

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[upon landing on beach] Private Flanagan: Come on out, you dirty slobs! Flanagan's back!

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Mayor of Colleville: [meeting the British on the beach] Welcome; welcome, friends. I brought champagne, but I do know think it will be enough for all of you. Lord Lovat: Quite alright. We have a pressing engagement; the war. Move inland. [to his bagp...

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Col. Josef 'Pips' Priller: [speaking in German] Thank you, my dear Hans! You have just killed both of us! [slams down phone] Luftwaffe major: It is getting very difficult to get any sleep around here. Col. Josef 'Pips' Priller: Your prospects for a l...

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Capt. Colin Maud: [walking up to a stalled vehicle] My old grandmother used to say anything mechanical, give it a good bashing. [Hits hood with his swagger stick] Capt. Colin Maud: Try it now. [vehicle cranks] Private Flanagan: [to Clough] Sure, now;...

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Maj. John Howard: [charging the Orne River Bridge] Up the Ox and Bucks! Up the Ox and Bucks!

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Maj. Werner Pluskat: [on the phone again] You know those five thousand ships you say the Allies haven't got? Well, they've got them!

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[Coded radio message to the French Resistance] Radio announcer: There is fire at the travel agency.

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[a coded message to the Resistance, spoken in French] Radio Announcer: Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.

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Private John Steele: Bonjour, mademoiselle. Je suis américain.

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[On whether to commence the Normandy invasion in marginal weather conditions] General Dwight D. Eisenhower: I'm quite positive we must give the order. I don't like it, but there it is. Gentlemen, I don't see how we can possibly do anything... but go.

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