"[reflecting on stopping the flow of Chinese forces across the Yalu] I requested permission to bomb the Yangtze bridges to keep the Chinese out of Korea. They said, "You might bomb the southern half of the bridges only." In my 50 years of military service, I have never learned how to bomb HALF a bridge!"

"[addressing West Point cadets] Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, and what you will be. They are your rallying points. They give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, an appetite for adventure over love of ease. In this way, they will teach you to be an officer and a gentleman. From your ranks come the great captains who will hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: 'Duty, Honor, Country.' This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our minds ring the ominous words of Plato: 'Only the dead have seen the end of war.' ....The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished in tone and tint. They have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly, but with thirsty ear, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But, in the evening of my memory, always I return to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: 'Duty, Honor, Country.' Today marks my final roll call with you. I want you to know that when I cross the river, my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. I bid you farewell."

"Gregory Peck - General of the Army General Douglas MacArthur"

"Nicolas Coster - Colonel Sidney Huff"

"Ward Costello - General of the Army George C. Marshall"

"Russell Johnson - Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King"

"The days of the frontal attack are over. Only a mediocre commander would use it. Your good commanders do not turn in heavy losses."

"[to Congress] But, once war has been forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war, there can be no substitute for victory. For history teaches us with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and increasingly greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only alternative. 'Why?' 'Why,' my soldiers asked of me, 'surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field?' I could not answer. The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description. They have chosen to risk death rather than slavery. Their last words to me were: 'Don't scuttle the Pacific.' I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished. But I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that 'old soldiers never die, they just fade away.' Like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye."

"Corey Fischer as Captain Patrick "Band-Aid" Bandini"

"Danny Goldman as Captain Dennis Murrhardt"

"Jo Ann Pflug as Lieutenant Maria "Dish" Schneider"

"Gary Burghoff as Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly"

"Carl Gottlieb as Captain "Ugly" John Black"

"René Auberjonois as Father Francis John Patrick "Dago Red" Mulcahy"

"Indus Arthur as Lieutenant Leslie"

"Sally Kellerman as Major Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan"

"Fred Williamson as Captain Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones"

"Robert Duvall as Major Franklin Delano Marion "Ferret Face" Burns"

"Tom Skerritt as Captain Augustus Bedford "Duke" Forrest"

"You're not a real M*A*S*H fan until you've seen the original. (1982 re-release)"

"M*A*S*H Gives A D*A*M*N."

"Donald Sutherland as Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Jr."

"John Schuck as Captain Walter Koskiusko "Painless Pole" Waldowski"

"Elliott Gould as Captain "Trapper" John Francis Xavier McIntyre"

"Roger Bowen as Lieutenant Colonel Henry Braymore Blake"