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Philip Sheridan
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“Now, boys, lie low, you know, and let 'em come up close, you know, and then rise up and give 'em ———, you know.”
Philip Sheridan (1831–1888) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the , November 24, 1863. Quoted by John K. Schellenberger, "With Sheridan's Division at Missionary Ridge" in Sketches of War History, 1861–1865, ed. W. H. Chamberlin (1885), p. 54
“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.”
Philip Sheridan (1831–1888) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Advice to Otto von Bismarck during the siege of Paris. Quoted in Lance Janda, "Shutting the Gates of Mercy: the American Origins of Total War, 1860-1880," The Journal of Military History 59, no. 1 (January 1995), 12.
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell.”
Philip Sheridan (1831–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Many newspapers stated that he had said this, and later on in his life he repeated it in variations. See "Sheridan, Hell and Texas", The American Catholic (April 30, 2010)
“The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.”
Philip Sheridan (1831–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to Comanche Chief Tosawi stating "Me, Tosawi; me good Injun". Sheridan disputed having replied this, and biographer Roy Morris Jr. claims that popular history simply assumed that he did state it. Reported in…