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Yellow Hawk: I'll live to see you die beneath my steel, Custer.
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California Joe (to Custer about Terry): Looks like the old man's in the mood to do some sprightly chewing.
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Yellow Hawk: You take no chances do you, Custer?
Custer: Only those I have to.
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Custer: Treaties that are made by men are sometimes carried out by fools.
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Custer: Too much of the blame is being placed on the Indians when the fault is as much our own.
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Custer (about Yellow Hawk): Use me to bait a trap for him.
Terry: Mr. Custer, the Indian Wars are not a vendetta.
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California Joe: If it's any consolation, patrolling beats cutting wood.
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Custer: California, your mule's got more principles that you have.
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Yellow Hawk (about Custer): He's too clever to do what we expect him to do.
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Keogh: Ignoring General Terry's orders?
Custer: Any objections, Mr. Keogh?
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Bustard (to California Joe): The way you smell, no self-respectin' Sioux will come within 10 miles of you.