Comparison Quote by Ulysses S. Grant

I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best…

— Ulysses S Grant

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to…

— Richard M. Nixon

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence…

— Bernard Baruch

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense…

— Zbigniew Herbert

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

— George W. Bush

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how…

— Clara Barton

I have, on several occasions, disagreed with decisions of Justice Souter.

— William H. Pryor

My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.

— Owen King

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not…

— Sophie Scholl

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

— George H. W. Bush

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted…

— George Mason

I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone.…

— David Milch