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War Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant
- I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
- Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
- 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…
- 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…
- The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the…
- Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
- It will be all right if it turns out all right.
- Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
- 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.
- Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
- ...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…
- 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…
- ...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…
- 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…
- Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself,…
- The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the…
- The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard…
- Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means…
- If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
- Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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