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Men Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant
- It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
- 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…
- How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a…
- When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I…
- Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public…
- As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must…
- Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
- If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
- There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.
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