Best Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
- Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also. Army
- There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. Civil War
- Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them. Attach
- ...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever… All
- I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood… Better
- 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… Confident
- There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held… Behind
- The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front. Army
- 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… Been
- The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A… Abilities
- Two commanders on the same field are always one too many. Always One
- I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within… Acted
- I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency. Funny
- Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses. Ah
- In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home Book
- I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how… Any
- 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… All
- I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much… Anything Rather
- A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be… Army
- I will not move my army without onions. Army
- ...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to… Abuse
- If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which… All
- The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he… Accustomed
- Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public… Avoided
- 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
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