Maj. Amos Dundee: I have only three commands. When I signal you to come, you come. When I signal you to charge, you charge. And when I signal you to run - you follow me and run like *hell*!


--Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee

Maj. Amos Dundee: I want everyone under my command to be drunker than a fiddler's bitch by nightfall.


--Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee

Maj. Amos Dundee: Lieutenant Graham?
Lt. Graham: Yes, sir.
Maj. Amos Dundee: I gave you a specific order, and you failed to carry it out.
Lt. Graham: No, sir, you gave me a command. I gave the orders from then on.
Maj. Amos Dundee: You sure did, Lieutenant. Have a cigar.


--Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee

Maj. Amos Dundee: Name?
Rev. Dahlstrom: Dahlstrom. Any man who has a just cause should travel with the word of God.
Maj. Amos Dundee: With all due respect, God has nothing to do with it. I intend to smite the wicked, not save the Heathen.
Rev. Dahlstrom: Seventeen years ago I married John and Mary Rostes. Those who destroyeth my flock, shall so be destroyed.
Maj. Amos Dundee: [smiles] Reverend.


--Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee

Maj. Amos Dundee: Sam...
Samuel Potts: Yeah?
Maj. Amos Dundee: Don't get yourself killed... That would inconvenience me.


--Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee

Maj. Amos Dundee: This is the secret of my success; I drink!
[holds up whiskey bottle]
Maj. Amos Dundee: But, I don't drink enough.


--Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee

Maj. Amos Dundee: You thieves, renegades, deserters, you gentlemen of the South. I want some volunteers. I want volunteers to fight the Apache Sierra Charriba. I need horse soldiers - men who can ride, men who can shoot. In return, I promise you nothing... saddle sores, short rations, maybe a bullet in your belly... and free air to breathe, fair share of tobacco, quarter pay... and my good will and best offices for pardons and paroles when I get back.


--Charlton Heston (as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee) in Major Dundee

Maj. Matt Lewis: He's a good soldier when he knows what he's fighting for.
Sir Arthur Robertson: It's easy when it's something you can see; a wall, a hill, a river, but how can you explain to them when it's for a principle.
Maj. Matt Lewis: You can't. Not here in China, it's too far from home.


--Charlton Heston (as Maj. Matt Lewis) in 55 Days at Peking

Moses: [Moses, to Sethi, after Sethi came to see Moses, as he was completing the city to be built] Pharoah is pleased?
Sethi: Yes. But not with certain accusations, made against you.
Moses: By whom?
Sethi: You raided the temple granaries?
Moses: Yes.
[Rameses puts first weight on weight scale, while weight scale on opposite side, stays up]
Sethi: You gave the grain to the slaves?
Moses: Yes.
[Rameses puts second weight on weight scale, while weight scale on opposite side, still stays up]
Rameses: You gave them one day in seven to rest.
Moses: Yes.
[Rameses puts third weight on weight scale, and scale lowered, with three weights, added together, to empty weight scale, on opposite side]
Sethi: Did you do all this, to gain their favor?
Moses: [Moses then put a brick on empty weight scale, on opposite side of Rameses' weight scale, of accusations, and then said] A city is made of brick, Pharoah. The strong make many. The weak make few. The dead make none. So much for accusations.


--Charlton Heston (as Moses / God) in The Ten Commandments

Moses: [to Jethro's daughters, as they were washing his feet, and nearly falls in] Never has a sheep had so many shepherds.
[in humor]


--Charlton Heston (as Moses / God) in The Ten Commandments