Grant Quotes
634 quotes by 526 authors
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"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
— Ernest Gaines
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been…
— Horace Porter
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for…
— Victoria Woodhull
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
— Victoria Woodhull
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Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."
— Lauren Bacall
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
— William Shakespeare
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But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman.…
— Luigi Veronelli
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global…
— James Spann
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The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.
— Carlo Dossi
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Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me…
— Ram Prasad Bismil
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Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride,…
— Jeff Cooper
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It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O…
— Swami Vivekananda
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So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
— Ayn Rand
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is…
— Joseph Story
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Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine…
— Samuel Adams
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But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in…
— William Howard Taft
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