Or at least of fending him off for long enough that we can…

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

— George Armstrong Custer

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right.…

— Vine Deloria Jr

There's a fragment that goes, "Some say the most beautiful thing in the world is a great cavalry riding down over the hill. Others…

— Sam Hamill

Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would…

— John Maynard Keynes

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the…

— Manfred von Richthofen

The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds! We shall…

— Aristophanes

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence…

— Arthur Helps

“Don’t shoot,” Tom cautioned again. “That brave in the lead has a crooked lance with a white flag. Whatever it is they’re wantin’, it…

— Catherine Anderson

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army…

— Honore de Balzac

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry,…

— James Monroe

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The cavalry ain't coming. You have to do it yourself.”

— Christopher Gardner

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get…

— Maeve Binchy