Quotes
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Ned Quimbo : Perhaps you need someone like me to tell the world the truth about you? Or what you would like them to consider to be the truth?
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer : You do me too much honor, Mr. Quimbo. If you really wish to write about a man who is a living legend, may I suggest you seek the acquaintance of Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux?
Nora Moffett : Do you hold all your enemies in such high regard, Colonel?
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer : As a good Christian, I always turn the other cheek, but not my back.
Nora Moffett : Isn't it a pity that so little of your Christian generosity was in evidence when you were fighting us.
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer : You lost your husband in the war. You have my sympathy. Perhaps for such losses we should blame war itself, not the color of the uniform.
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[last lines]
Nora Moffett : I am very happy to have had the opportunity to have known you, Colonel Custer.
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer : My privilege to know you, ma'am.
Nora Moffett : However, there is something that needs to be said. I have reason to like you, respect you, but you still stand for everything I hate: War and brutal senseless killing. Everything that you men call glory.
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer : I can't deny that, Mrs. Moffett. But I heard a great man once say, "As much as I respect your opinion, I respect my duty more."
Nora Moffett : One of your Yankee heroes, Colonel Custer?
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer : No, madam, that was General Robert E. Lee.
