"They have their own rules in the drug world. They killed my son for twelve-hundred dollars. [Pause] They said there's a reason for everything. Well if God's got a purpose for me, he better get the fuck down and show me, cause I don't see it!"

"You've fucked up your life so bad! And the only way you're gonna UNFUCK it, is that you come clean now, Johnny, YOU COME CLEAN NOW!"

"A drug dealer? No. Did he sell a little weed? Yeah."

"[First lines of film] You wanna know what this is all about? You can say its about drugs or guns or disaffected youth, or whatever you like. But this whole thing is about parenting. It's about taking care of your children. You take care of yours, I take care of mine."

"Am I the only fucking person who thinks this is fucking wrong?"

"[After breaking Jake's window with a rock] 97 miles an hour muthafucker!"

"Jesus. First you give me mouth, now you're giving me fucking tears. Do me a favor, Susan: have a period or something."

"[On the phone with Johnny Truelove] No matter where you go, no matter what you do, I'm gonna hunt you down. I'm gonna hunt you down and then I'm gonna slit your throat and then I'm gonna cut you open and then I'M GONNA EAT YOUR MOTHERFUCKING HEART! YOU BETTER PRAY, JOHNNY YOU BETTER FUCKING PRAY THAT THE COPS FIND YOU BEFORE I DO! GET ON YOUR COCKSUCKING KNEES AND PRAY! [Pause] HELLO? HELLO?!"

"You ever have that dream, the one where you did something... you can't know why, but you can never go back?"

"Nobody even noticed that second flag going up. Everybody saw that damn picture and made up their own story about it. But your dad and the others knew what they had done, and what they had not done. All your friends dying, it's hard enough to be called a hero for saving somebody's life. But for putting up a pole?"

"Gordon Clapp - General "Howlin' Mad" Smith"

"Ned Eisenberg - Joe Rosenthal"

"David Patrick Kelly - President Harry Truman"

"George Hearn - Walter Gust"

"Harve Presnell - Older Dave Severance"

"George Grizzard - Older John Bradley"

"Stark Sands - Gust"

"Scott Reeves - Lundsford"

"Alessandro Mastrobuono - Lindberg"

"Benjamin Walker - Harlon Block"

"This isn't just any island to them. This isn't Tarawa, Guam, Tinian, or Saipan. This is Japanese soil, sacred ground. Twelve thousand Japanese defenders in eight square miles, they will not leave politely, gentlemen! It's up to us to convince them."

"Joseph Cross - Franklin Sousley"

"Myra Turley - Madeline Evelley"

"Judith Ivey - Belle Block"

"Chris Bauer - Commandant Vandegrift"

"People on the street corners, they looked at this picture and they took hope. Don't ask me why, I think it's a crappy picture, myself. You can't even see your faces! But it said we can win this war, are winning this war, we just need you to dig a little deeper. They want to give us that money. No, they want to give it to you."