[weakly mutters something after being mortally wounded]
Private Ryan:
[leans in closer]
What, sir?
Captain Miller:
James, earn this… earn it.

[weakly mutters something after being mortally wounded]
Private Ryan:
[leans in closer]
What, sir?
Captain Miller:
James, earn this… earn it.
Hawkeye:
No! You stay alive! If they don’t kill you, they’ll take you north up to the Huron lands. Submit, do you hear? You’re strong! You survive! You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you! No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle:
There’s nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.
Dieter:
Empty what is full. Fill what is empty. Scratch what itches.
Staff Sergeant William James:
[Speaking to his son]
You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your mommy, your daddy, your nature pajamas. You love everything, don’t ya? Yeah. But you know what, buddy? As you get older… some of the things that you love might not seem so special anymore, you know? Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you’ll realize it’s just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal, but the older you get, the fewer things you really love, and by the time you get to my age, maybe it’s only one or two things. With me, I think it’s one.
Colonel Mulholland:
The most important thing you take into battle, is the reason why.
Blind Man:
Well done, lads. Well done.
Alex:
All we did is survive.
Blind Man:
That’s enough.
Commisar Danilov:
I’ve been such a fool, Vassili. Man will always be a man. There is no new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there’d be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there’s always something to envy. A smile, a friendship, something you don’t have and want to appropriate. In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love.
Trautman:
[1:24:53]
You did everything to make this private war happen. You’ve done enough damage. This mission is over, Rambo. Do you understand me? This mission is over! Look at them out there! Look at them! If you won’t end this now, they will kill you. Is that what you want? It’s over Johnny. It’s over!
Rambo:
Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don’t turn it off! It wasn’t my war! You asked me, I didn’t ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn’t let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they? Unless they’ve been me and been there and know what the hell they’re yelling about!
Trautman:
It was a bad time for everyone, Rambo. It’s all in the past now.
Rambo:
For *you*! For me civilian life is nothing! In the field we had a code of honor, you watch my back, I watch yours. Back here there’s nothing!
Trautman:
You’re the last of an elite group, don’t end it like this.
Rambo:
Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can’t even hold a job *parking cars*!