Rough Riders (1997)
Gary Busey: Gen. Joseph Wheeler
Quotes
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Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : We've got the Yankees on the run!
Lt. William Wheeler : Spaniards, sir; and they're falling back onto prepared positions.
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : Don't spoil it, son.
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Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : [after his shot was shot] I haven't had a horse shot out from under me in 30 years.
[sigh]
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : It's still a Thrill.
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Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : This isn't a regulation war. That ain't how we do things here in the South.
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Secretary of State John Hay : General, you were one of the finest cavalry officers in the Confederacy.
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : [shakes his head] Let me tell you something... Bedford Forrest had 32 horses shot out from under him, but he killed 33 Yankees.
[chuckles]
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : Forrest was better!
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Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : [after leaving an officer's conference] That General Shafter is way over his head... WAY over. And he's big as a house to boot!
Lt. William Wheeler : I just hope you were polite in there, Daddy.
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : What if I wasn't? What the hell are they gonna do to me?
Lt. William Wheeler : I just meant that...
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : Now, you listen to me, boy! I am a US Congressman, I am a volunteer, I am here on the personal request of the President of the United States... and I am a Reb!
Lt. William Wheeler : I understand, Daddy...
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : Now listen to me very closely... I have got these Yankees by the long johns!
Col. Swayles : General Wheeler! I hope you won't mind this brief intrusion, but I'm Horatio Swayles. I was with the Union cavalry that opposed you in the fighting around Atlanta.
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : Nice to meet you. This is my son, William. You'll forgive me if I tell you that Atlanta isn't one of my fondest memories.
Col. Swayles : Well, of course...
[the Wheelers walk on]
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : [to William] I should have killed that son of a bitch long ago to keep him from breeding!
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Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : [eating a stew] You stole this hog!
[makes oinking noises, to the consternation of Wood and Roosevelt]
Eli : We caught the gator and the snake.
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : Snake?
Eli : Footless animal stew, sir.
[chuckles]
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Gen. Shafter : Our transport ships haven't even got here yet! And now I hear supplies are still aboard trains? And our quartermaster tells me he has no idea WHICH trains! I've never seen anything like it. My God, I've never seen anything like it in my lifetime!
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : That's because nothing like this has ever happened in your lifetime.
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Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : [to McKinley] But don't worry too much about them people in the South. there's nothing they like better than a good fight.
[laughs]
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : Good day.
[He starts to leave]
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : Oh, we don't even celebrate the Fourth of July.
[Guffaws]
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler : Maybe after this, we will.