Joe Knox Quotes in The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976)

Sam Longwood: Raped? What's that, an old Indian tradition?

Joe Knox: It's an army tradition. I was conceived at Wolf Paw massacre, remember?

Sam Longwood: Well, the army teaches it's men to love the enemy.

Joe Knox: Yes. In groups.

Joe Knox: My father was a sergeant, two corporals, a bugler and a company cook.

Sam Longwood: Well, that makes you about five, six white men after all!

[laughs]

Sam Longwood: I think the army did you a favor.

Joe Knox: And I have been trying to repay that favor ever since I learned how to use a hunting knife.

[opens his vest to show his collection of scalps]

Sam Longwood: Oh, for Christ sake, will you put those mouldy scalps away? I happen to know that you bought them off a drummer in New Haven, Connecticut for fifty cents a piece.