Capt. Thomas Archer: Dull Knife! Little Wolf! What happened today changes nothing. The Indian Bureau is still pledged to provide you with adequate clothing and rations. And you're still pledged to abide by the law. Remember that!
Dull Knife: We are asked to remember much. The white man remembers nothing.

- Gilbert Roland (as Dull Knife) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Capt. Thomas Archer: Have you ever seen a Cheyenne?
Deborah Wright: Of course I have.
Capt. Thomas Archer: No you haven't! All you've ever seen is reservation Indians looking pitiful as fish out of water. But give them a chance and they're the greatest fighters in the world. Will you listen to me? It takes a blue coat to make a white man a soldier... but a Cheyenne is a soldier from the first slap on his butt. War is his life. He's fierce, he's smart... and he's meaner than sin!

- Richard Widmark (as Capt. Thomas Archer) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Capt. Thomas Archer: Mr. Scott! I told you to cover that flank!
2nd Lt. Scott: I'm sorry, sir.
Capt. Thomas Archer: From now on, you don't scratch until I itch! Is that clear?

- Richard Widmark (as Capt. Thomas Archer) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Capt. Thomas Archer: Scott, tell me something.
2nd Lt. Scott: Sir?
Capt. Thomas Archer: What put the blood in your eyes?
2nd Lt. Scott: It's just a private matter, sir.
Capt. Thomas Archer: Nothing that affects an officer's conduct is private.

- Richard Widmark (as Capt. Thomas Archer) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Capt. Thomas Archer: You claim to be a doctor. You gonna let him put those women and children in a warehouse at 10 below zero? What are you gonna do about it?
Dr. O'Carberry: What are you gonna do about it?

- Sean McClory (as Dr. O'Carberry) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Sr. First Sergeant: [a Cossack] kills Poles just because they're Poles. Like we're trying to kill Indians just because they're Indians.
Capt. Thomas Archer: Come on, Wichowski. You fought Indians before!
Sr. First Sergeant: I fought Indians who wanted to fight me, not just some poor blanket-heads trying to go home!

- Mike Mazurki (as Sr. First Sergeant) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Wyatt Earp: Say, you're the doctor around here. How come I always have to perform all the complicated operations?
Doc Holliday: You know I am a dentist, not a doctor. Wait until somebody shoot him in the teeth.

- Arthur Kennedy (as Doc Holliday) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Spanish Woman: They are angry... because my son fired the first shot.
Deborah Wright: Does it ever matter who fires the first shot?

- Carroll Baker (as Deborah Wright) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Spanish Woman: They will not go back. Life there is not life. They will die here.

- Dolores del Rio (as Spanish Woman) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Doc Holliday: Forgive me, mademoiselle.
Miss Plantagenet: What the hell kind of talk is that?
Wyatt Earp: Now, as I understand it, a mademoiselle is a madam who ain't quite made it yet - only younger and friskier. I'd call it a compliment.

- James Stewart (as Wyatt Earp) in Cheyenne Autumn (1964)