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Been Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant
- There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball, stabbed…
- I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I…
- Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
- My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
- Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
- It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was…
- I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests…
- Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or…
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