Ma'am! What am I your maiden aunt? Call me Mrs. Aragon. Call me Belle. Call me madame if you're tired of living, but don't call me... ma'am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. York: Colonel, if you send out the regiment, Cochise'll think I've tricked him. Col. Thursday: Exactly, we have tricked... him. Tricked him into returning to American soil, and I intend to see that he stays here. Capt. York: Col. Thursday, I gave my word to Cochise. No man is going to make a liar out of me, sir. Col. Thursday: Your word to a breach-cladded savage, an illiterate, uncivilized murderer and treaty breaker. There's no question of honor, sir, between an American officer and Cochise. Capt. York: There is to me, sir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No troop or squadron or regiment's gonna keep the Apaches on this reservation unless they want to stay here. Five years ago we mad...e a treaty with Cochise. He and his Cherokowas and some of the other Apache bands came on the reservation. They wanted to live here in peace and did for two years. And then Meacham, here, was sent by the Indian ring, the dirtiest, most corrupt political group in our history. And then it began--whiskey but no beef, trinkets instead of blankets, the women degraded, the children sickly, and the men turning into drunken animals. So Cochise did the only thing a decent man could do. He left. Took most of his people and crossed the Rio Bravo into Mexico.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're wrong there. They aren't forgotten because they haven't died. They're living right out there, Collingwood and the rest. And... they'll keep on living as long as the regiment lives. The pay is $13 a month and their diet is beans and hay. It may be horsemeat before this campaign is over. They fight over cards or rotgut whiskey but share the last drop in their canteens. Their faces may change, the names. But they're there. They're the regiment, the regular army--now and fifty years from now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Someday you'll learn how they hate to give up. Captain of a troop one day, every man's face turned t...oward ya. Lieutenants jump when I growl. Now tomorrow, I'll be glad if the blacksmith asks me to shoe a horse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, Mary, only six more days to go and your old Nathan will be out of the army. Haven't decided what I'll do yet. Somehow I just... can't picture myself back there on the banks of the Wabash rocking on a front porch. No, I've been thinkin I, maybe I'll push on west, new settlements, California.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: Well, the prodigal brother. When d'you get back? I ain't seen you since the surrender. Come to think of... it, I didn't see you at the surrender. Ethan Edwards: Don't believe in surrender. I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't turn it into no plowshare, neither.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: What good did that do ya? Ethan Edwards: By what you preach none. By what that Comanch believes, a...in't got no eyes he can't enter the spirit land. Has to wander forever between the winds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »