Cavalry Quotes

• 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

  Book, Thinking, Roots

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Without cavalry, battles are without result.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Army, Battle

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• A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

  Steven Pressfield

  Horse, Mad, Riders

  Steven Pressfield (2004). “The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great”, Broadway Books

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• The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Long, Enemy, Retreat

  "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War, Vol. I". Book by George Francis Robert Henderson, 1904.

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• 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

  Country, Spirit, Operations

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Born to Run: Origins of the Political Career". Book by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119, 2003.

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• Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Army, Battle

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• 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

  War, Men, May

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• Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Infantry

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• It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Victory

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.

  Chris Gardner

  Depends

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

  George Armstrong Custer

  Funny, Humor, World

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• A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Peace, Freedom, War

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• 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

  Stars, Zombie, Killers

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• The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

  George Orwell

  History, Battle, Stirring

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our World

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• No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

  Mark Duplass

  Giving, Want, Chance

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• 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

  Horse, Stars, Eye

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• 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.

  Half, Way, Said

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• Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Fire, Essentials

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• 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

  Country, Tanks, Pennsylvania

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• She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)

  Kate Chopin

  Dog, Father, Distance

  Kate Chopin (2015). “The Awakening & Other Short Stories”, p.166, Booklassic

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• If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.

  John Buford

  Believe, Together, Ifs

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• What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army of fifty thousand Men, ten thousand of them to be Cavalry and his projects of sedition Laws and Alien Laws and of new taxes to support his army, all arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off! and that the same vapours produced his Lyes and Slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his Life in the field of Honor.

  John Adams

  Party, Army, Men

  John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”

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• Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

  John Ford

  Hollywood, Film, Tales

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