- Miles Archer: I don't get it. Indians don't like to fight at night.
- Grover Johnson, Artist: Why?
- Miles Archer: Because if they get killed in the dark it'll always be dark in their happy hunting grounds.
- Pvt. Smiley: When a man is forced by bitter circumstances to drink water, you might have the common decency to turn the other way.
- Pvt. Connors: Say, is this really a repeater?
- Quartermaster Sergeant: A repeater? Son, you can load this on Sunday and shoot it all week.
- Grover Johnson, Artist: Well, if they had squaws with them, they would hardly be on the warpath, would they?
- Miles Archer: Anybody who tells you he can figure Indians - he's lyin'!
- Pvt. Cullen: Well, sir, when I get drunk I forget what I do and I steal.
- Miles Archer: Uh-huh.
- Pvt. Cullen: And when I steal, I want to forget what I did so I get drunk.
- Miles Archer: I just get drunk