General Custer Quotes in Little Big Man (1970)

Jack Crabb: You're not going to hang me.

General Custer: Your miserable life is not worth the reversal of a Custer decision.

Jack Crabb: General, you go down there.

General Custer: You're advising me to go into the Coulee?

Jack Crabb: Yes sir.

General Custer: There are no Indians there, I suppose.

Jack Crabb: I didn't say that. There are thousands of Indians down there. And when they get done with you, there won't be nothing left but a greasy spot. This ain't the Washite River, General, and them ain't helpless women and children waiting for you. They're Cheyenne brave, and Sioux. You go down there, General, if you've got the nerve.

General Custer: Still trying to outsmart me, aren't you, mule-skinner. You want me to think that you don't want me to go down there, but the subtle truth is you really *don't* want me to go down there!

General Custer: You came up here to kill me, didn't you? And you lost your nerve. Well, I was correct. In a sense, you are a renegade, but you are no Cheyenne Brave. Do I hang you? I think not. Get out of here.

General Custer: Nothing in this world is more surprising than the attack without mercy!

General Custer: A Custer decision impetuous? GRANT called me impetuous, too, the drunkard, sitting there in the White House, calling ME impetuous!

General Custer: A scout has a certain look... Kit Carson, for example. You look like... a muleskinner!

Jack Crabb: Uh, General I don't know anything about mules...

General Custer: Lieutenant, it's amazing how I can guess the profession of a man just by looking at him! Notice the bandy legs, the powerful arms. This man has spent years with mules. Isn't that right?

Jack Crabb: Uh, yes sir!

General Custer: Hire the muleskinner!

General Custer: Take my advice. Go West!

Olga Crabb: [in a Swedish accent] Vest?

[She wails and bursts into tears]

Jack Crabb: My wife, she's awful scared of Injuns.

General Custer: My dear woman, you have nothing to fear from the Indians, I give you my personal Custer guarantee.

[Abrupt cut to a wagon train being attacked by Native Americans and Olga screaming]