- B.F. Goodrich: [after shooting a Spaniard who tried to surrender] He who has no stomach for this fight, let him depart.
- Gen. Joseph Wheeler: We've got the Yankees on the run!
- Lt. William Wheeler: Spaniards, sir; and they're falling back onto prepared positions.
- Gen. Joseph Wheeler: Don't spoil it, son.
- Indian Bob: What are you thinking about, Craig?
- Craig Wadsworth: My father. He gave me some advice, before I joined the regiment.
- Indian Bob: Was it good advice?
- Craig Wadsworth: Yes.
- Indian Bob: Did you follow it?
- Craig Wadsworth: No.
- Theodore Roosevelt: Will you be so kind, Mr Crane, with your camera, to take a picture of this regiment on this glorious hill, for we will always live in its shadow.
- Stephen Crane, writer: You're wounded, sir.
- Craig Wadsworth: A red badge of courage... it's not like your book, old man. I would have run if I could have.
- Stephen Crane, writer: Why didn't you?
- Craig Wadsworth: Because they were watching, my fellows; they didn't run.
- Theodore Roosevelt: [frustrated and waving a pistol as a captured German provides instructions on how to use a machine gun] I can see it feeds from the right!
- Henry Nash: [Nash and the buffalo soldier come up to Remington painting the battlefield] Hey, painter man! Where's the 1st Cavalry?
- Frederick Remington: How should I know? I'm a non-combatant, God damn it!
- Frederick Remington: [listening to Hearst dictate a report] There were no gleaming helmets! We're in the jungle.
- William Randolph Hearst: Shut up and finish your painting, Freddie.
- Frederick Remington: But it's not... true!
- William Randolph Hearst: Truth is the first casualty of war, Freddie. You'd ought to know that.
- Henry Nash: Captain, hadn't you better get down?
- Capt. Bucky O'Neil: There ain't a Spanish bullet made that can kill me! Nash...
- [is shot by a Spanish sniper]
- Henry Nash: [after O'Neill is killed] I swear that I'll make people remember you, old man. Remember what you did for us. I'll build a statue if I have to!
- Black Jack Pershing: [before the charge on San Juan Hill] Buffalo soldiers! This what they pay you thirteen dollars a month for!
- Indian Bob: [after Kane, Tiffany and Wodsworth begin reciting Henry V's Agincourt speech] What are they talking about?
- Henry Nash: [shrugs] They're educated men.