Buffalo Bill Quotes

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

I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

Perhaps your people do not know that the battle of Tippecanoe was the work of white men who came from Canada and urged us to make war.

I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

No study is possible on the battlefield.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

This city has done more to supply and carry on this war than any other save perhaps Richmond. They have attacked us and our government. It must be destroyed.

The camera will show the true face of war.

One looks ahead to a war and imagines it as a single, final, absolute event. It is nothing of the kind. War is a condition, like peace, with good days and bad days, moods of optimism and despair.

It’s very easy to advocate going to war if you’re not one of the people who is going.

Instead of stealing upon each other and taking every advantage to kill the enemy and save their own people, as we do, they [whites] march out, in open daylight, and fight, regardless of the number of warriors they may loose!

You are brave today because you outnumber the white men, but what will you do tomorrow? There are railroads on all sides of you. The soldiers will pour in from every direction by thousands and surround you. You have little food or ammunition. It will be the end of your people. Stop, I say, stop now!

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.