Philip Sheridan quotes
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“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.”
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“I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.”
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“Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.”
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“If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.”
-- Philip Sheridan -
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“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.”
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“I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!”
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“The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.”
-- Philip SheridanSource : PBS "The New Perspectives on THE WEST", www.pbs.org.
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