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

Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.

- Philip Sheridan

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

- Philip Sheridan

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

- 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 trombonis…

- Philip Sheridan

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

- Philip Sheridan