O.W. Hadley Quotes in Major Dundee (1965)

O.W. Hadley: [as he is about to be executed as a deserter] Aw, hell, Major, you're just doin' what you gots to do! But goddamn your soul for it anyway, and God bless Robert E. Lee!

[Tyreen shoots him in the back of the head]

Aesop: [observing the French troops] My outfit could lick those boys - those ones on foot, anyway. With one hand tied behind our backs.

O.W. Hadley: How's that, Aesop?

Aesop: They're soft, O.W. - they ain't never been South.

O.W. Hadley: [Hadley is to be executed for desertion] You gonna let them shoot me, sir?

Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: I'm obliged to, son. You should've remembered you belong to the Major, and not to me.

Arthur Hadley: [Arthur and a few others are bathing in a spring] Come on in, O.W.!

O.W. Hadley: I already took my bath!