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There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer
If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders. -- John Buford
Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through. -- Vine Deloria Jr.
Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything. -- Maurice de Saxe
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry. -- James Monroe
Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed. -- Andy Grove
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. -- Dick Gregory
Without cavalry, battles are without result. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character. -- Domhnall Gleeson
The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side. -- Bob Dylan
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses. -- Walter Alexander Raleigh
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. -- Emily Dickinson
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet. -- Aristophanes
A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so. -- Steven Pressfield
Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right? -- Richard Kadrey
Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism. -- Clive Sinclair
Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents. -- Jonathan Maberry
If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. -- Alfred North Whitehead
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do. -- Walt Whitman
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark. -- Janet Morris
The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies. -- Leonard Cohen
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts. -- Rick Atkinson
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry. -- Manfred von Richthofen
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! -- Philip Gibbs
Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable. -- Maeve Binchy
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that. -- Tom Stoppard
There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove. -- Zebulon Pike
I have two friends named Matt. They're both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same section of Iraq. They both worked with the same Iraqi translator. And yet, if you talk to them, their stories couldn't be more different, because one was there in 2006. One was there in 2008. -- Phil Klay
The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life. -- Anne Lamott
A little caution outflanks a large cavalry. -- Otto von Bismarck
You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming, -- Chris Gardner
Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. -- Jacob Aagaard
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats. -- Stonewall Jackson
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. -- George Orwell
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? -- John Ford
African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen. -- Jared Diamond
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us. -- Jamie Drummond
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics. -- John Maynard Keynes

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