Quotes About George Armstrong Custer

#1. First Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer - his new regular army rank dated to July 17 - was

Thom Hatch

#2. If you don't have savings, and your co-founders are as poor as you are, and if Mom and Dad won't loan you money, then your best bet is to find people that know you - your friends. If they, too, won't help, then you're stuck seeking out angel investors.

Vivek Wadhwa

#3. [On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

Steve Case

#4. My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

George Armstrong Custer

#5. The Army is the Indian's best friend.

George Armstrong Custer

#6. Indians, schmindians!

George Armstrong Custer

#7. You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

George Armstrong Custer

#8. If I were an Indian ... I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

George Armstrong Custer

#9. Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah!

George Armstrong Custer

#10. I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

George Armstrong Custer

#11. The Seventh can handle anything it meets.

George Armstrong Custer

#12. I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

George Armstrong Custer

#13. There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

George Armstrong Custer

#14. Where did all these damn indians come from?

George Armstrong Custer

#15. If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

Jason Statham

#16. Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.

George Armstrong Custer

#17. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

George Armstrong Custer

#18. Lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.

James C. Collins

#19. Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.

George Armstrong Custer

#20. Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise

Victor Turner