Baron Nishi: [reading the letter from the mother of Sam, the dead marine] Remember what I said to you: always do what's right because it is right.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: I will always be in front of you.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: If our children can live safely for one more day it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island.
Baron Nishi: This is a picture of me and my horse champion.
Sam: [Sam smiles and chuckles] No kidding. Oklahoma, it's where I'm from.
Baron Nishi: Takeichi.
Sam: Sam.
[Both men shake hands]
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: For our homeland. Until the very last man. Our duty is to stop the enemy right here. Do not expect to return home alive.
Saigo: We can die here, or we can continue fighting. Which would better serve the emperor?
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Everything happens in threes.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: The United States is the *last* country in the world that Japan should fight.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: You are quite a soldier
Saigo: No, just a simple baker
Shimizu: I don't know anything about the enemy. I thought all Americans were cowards. I was taught they were savages.
Saigo: [a letter to Saigo's wife] We soldiers dig. We dig all day. This is the hole that we will fight and die in. Am I digging my own grave?
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: I am determined to serve and give my life for my country.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: A day will come when they will weep and pray for your souls.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: You again?
Lt. Colonel Oiso: We will make a run for Motoyama. There is no cover for 2 kilometers, it will be every man for himself. See you on the other side, if not on this earth, then in the next world.
Saigo: He studied the Americans. So he knows how to beat them.
Saigo: Thank you very much. I'm happy to serve the country.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: We will build those underground fortifications. And fight till the end.
