George Armstrong Custer Quotes

• There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Funny, Humor, World

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• Where did all these damn Indians come from?

  George Armstrong Custer

  Damn

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• I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Battle, Would Be, Glad

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• If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

  George Armstrong Custer

  People, Limits, Reservations

  George Armstrong Custer (1874). “My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians”, p.18

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• You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Country, Regret, War

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• The Seventh can handle anything it meets.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Handle

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• There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

  George Armstrong Custer

  War, Soldier, Conflict

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• Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah!

  George Armstrong Custer

  Boys, Lasts, Last Words

  George Armstrong Custer's last words, June 25, 1876.

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• My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Truth, Purpose, Narrative

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• I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

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  War, Soldier, Enemy

  "The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian". Book by Ralph K. Andrist (p. 258), 2001.

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• Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Distance, Desire, Might

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• Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Character, Style, Add

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