Philip Sheridan famous 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.
-- Philip Sheridan

#War #Sight #Organization
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

#War #Taken #History
Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.
-- Philip Sheridan

#Military #Thinking #Opponents
If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.
-- Philip Sheridan

#War #Texas #Civil War
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

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

#War #Gun #Care
The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.
-- Philip Sheridan

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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight ...
I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While thatâ€™s cliche, I donâ€™t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.
Power is the flower of organization.
We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.

Philip Sheridan famous quotes

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