Jason McCullough: You beat that poor man to the draw. He's dead and you're alive. That's the idea of this game, isn't it?


--James Garner (as Jason McCullough) in Support Your Local Sheriff!

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: [after explaining the movie plan] What do you think of that.
Old Sailor: Commander, I think you're out of your everloving mind.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: You can say that again.


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: [to an overenthusiastic 'Bus' Cummings] Will you quit giving me these comradely pokes?


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: [to Emily] Lay off, Mrs. Miniver. If you don't like our Hershey bars don't take them. Pick yourself a frock or get out. It's not my job to listen to your sentimental contempt.


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: [to Emily] Well, you're a good woman. You've done the morally right thing. God save us all from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe. In that order. I want to know what I am, not what I should be.


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: I want you to remember that the last time you saw me, I was unregenerately eating a Hershey bar.


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: No one gets moral unless they're trying to get something or get out of something.


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: War isn't hell at all. It's man at his best; the highest morality he's capable of. It's not war that's insane, you see. It's the morality of it. It's not greed or ambition that makes war: it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons: for liberation or manifest destiny. Always against tyranny and always in the interest of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some ten million humans in the interest of humanity. Next war it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity. It's not war that's unnatural to us, it's virtue. As long as valor remains a virtue, we shall have soldiers. So, I preach cowardice. Through cowardice, we shall all be saved.


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily