Philip Sheridan Quotes & Sayings

Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know. — Philip Sheridan

I'm smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and he beats the world. he don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight, but it scares me like hell. — Philip Sheridan

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead. — Philip Sheridan

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won. — Philip Sheridan

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell. — Philip Sheridan

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad! — Philip Sheridan

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then. — Philip Sheridan