Abraham Quote by Marianne Williamson

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode…

— Jeff Greenfield

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a…

— Abraham Lincoln

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

— Mark Twain

“In the words of Frederick Douglass, “That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and…

— Ron Chernow

When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring…

— Marcy Kaptur

“Not far away lay the big cannons that had held Ulysses Grant at bay for fifty siege days while the citizens of the town…

— Greg Iles

“Around this time he performed a ceremony that he had contemplated for some time. He asked Fred to compose a letter requesting a future…

— Ron Chernow

“Grant deserves an honored place in American history, second only to Lincoln for what he did for the freed slaves. He got the big…

— Ron Chernow

“Since Ulysses S. Grant’s spelling could border on the eccentric, I have taken the liberty of correcting that and his punctuation and capitalization throughout…

— Ron Chernow

“Five years later, 750,000 Americans were dead. But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S. Grant called…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“eight thousand Republicans crammed into Crosby’s Opera House for a veritable coronation of Ulysses S. Grant. To play on wartime memories, General John “Black…

— Ron Chernow

“All suburban housing developments look alike, and besides, every Yankee who ever crossed the Potomac except Ulysses S. Grant got lost as soon as…

— Charles McCarry