- President Ulysses S. Grant: When you were at Westpoint, you had a lot to do with a cadet a year behind you, Armstrong Custer.
- Jason McCord: Yes, Sir. I was assigned to coach him for his entrance exams.
- President Ulysses S. Grant: This is an election year, McCord. He was the youngest Major-General in the history of the Army. Now he's thirty-five years old, just old enough to be the youngest President in the history of the country.
- General George Armstrong Custer: I'll meet you at 6 o'clock for a short one at the Bachelors' Officers' Tavern.
- Jason McCord: I'm not an officer.
- General George Armstrong Custer: It's all right, Jason, I'm not a bachelor.
- Jennie Galvin: He's been fighting Indians so long, he doesn't know how to treat them any other way.
- Jason McCord: You know him?
- Jennie Galvin: Yes, he's one of General Custer's scouts.
- General George Armstrong Custer: Mr President, you sound as though we're talking about children, these are the survivors of the Stone Age, they're savages, they're 25,000 years behind our civilisation.
- President Ulysses S. Grant: Is that any reason for us to act like savages?
- General George Armstrong Custer: Us? Mr President, the word Sioux means cutthroat, chop off heads. The Cheyenne symbol is cut off arms and collect human limbs. The Oglala Chief Crazy Horse wears a symbol of a bloody hand on the front of his jacket.
- Lieutenant Cable: I wonder who let him in here.
- Lieutenant Douglas Briggs: I don't know, but I know who's going to show him out!
- Gregory Hazin: Galvin, when those Indians come around this week for their supplies, you cut 'em down to quarter rations and no tobacco. The hungrier they get, the sooner they'll break that treaty.
- Timothy Galvin: What'll I tell them?
- Gregory Hazin: Tell them to take it up with the Great White Father.
- General George Armstrong Custer: [Custer leads the singing in a version of Garryowen, originally an Irish drinking song, and adopted by the 7th Cavalry] We are the pride of the Army, a regiment of great renown, our name's on the pages of history from '66 on down. We are the pride of the Army, a regiment of great renown, our name's on the pages of history from '66 on down. We'll break windows, we'll break doors, the watch knock down by threes and fours, and let the doctors work their cures, and tinker up our bruised.