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• Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Fiction

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Tired, Thinking

  Ulysses S. Grant (1969). “Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior and Statesman”

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• Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Blessing

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• Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Leadership, Two, Fields

  General Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]”, p.239, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.

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  Children, Hero, Love Is

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• It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Government, People, Generations

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Two, Events, Lessons

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Important Events, Choices

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Bad Ass

  "A History of Militarism: Romance and Realities of a Profession". Book by Alfred Vagts, p. 27., 1937.

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• I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Yankees, Two, Civil War

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Patriotic, Men, Waiting

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50”, p.470, Library of America

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• All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Party, Patriotic, Political

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• The Jews are a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also department orders and are herein expelled from the department within 24 hours from receipt of this order.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Order, Class, Regulation

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• The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, Children, Reading

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Thinking, Suffering, Three

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• Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.

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  Country, Greatness, Government

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• Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Law, President, United States

  Reply to brokers who urged him to lend $44 million from the U.S. Treasury reserve to banks. Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1873.

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• If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  President, Whatever Happens, No Turning Back

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Success, Law, Political

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1869

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• I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

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  Peace, Judging, Mind

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• The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Views, Years

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Mind

  Ulysses S Grant (2014). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: Volumes One and Two”, p.889, Open Road Media

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• I'm afraid I'm elected.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Ulysses S. Grant (1969). “Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior and Statesman”

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