If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.