Chato's Land (1972)

Jack Palance: Capt. Quincey Whitmore

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Quotes 

• Capt. Quincey Whitmore : Apaches don't leave tracks unless they got a reason.

• Nye Buell : You know, one thing I never could fathom was this... how did them Yankees win?

  Capt. Quincey Whitmore : They had more... more men, more guns, more food, more luck. You know, when I look back at it, I know now that it was there for the seeing... except we didn't see it.

• Joshua Everette : I've seen Comanches in Texas. And boy, I'll never want to see one again... I can tell you that.

  Capt. Quincey Whitmore : Well, you don't see Apaches. You don't hear 'em and you don't see 'em. It's like an act of God.

• Capt. Quincey Whitmore : For a thirsty man in a dry land, you gotta lotta talk.

• [on the Civil War] 

  Capt. Quincey Whitmore : Hell, it was a good war.

• Capt. Quincey Whitmore : To you this is so much bad land - rock, scrub, desert and then more rock. A hard land that the sun has sucked all the good out of. You can't farm it and you can't carve it out and call it your own... so you damn it to hell and it all looks the same. That's our way. To the breed, now, it's his land. He don't expect to give him much and he don't force it none. And to him, it's almost human - a living thing. And it will give him a good place to make his fight against us.