Philip Sheridan Quotes

United States Army general (1831-1888)

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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The proper strategy consists in the first place in inflicting as telling blows as possible upon the enemy's army, and then causing the inhabitants so much suffering that they must long for peace, and force their government to demand it. The people must be left nothing but their eyes to weep with over the war.

Now, boys, lie low, you know, and let 'em come up close, you know, and then rise up and give 'em ———, you know.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell.

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.