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Statesperson Inspirational Quotes (12226)

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I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy but I feel it within me that it is to be so.
Ulysses S. Grant
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The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
Ulysses S. Grant
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It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?
Ulysses S. Grant
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Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I'm afraid I'm elected.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I know only two tunes: one of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.
Ulysses S. Grant
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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 of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant
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The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.
Barack Obama
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
Seneca the Younger
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I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.
Barack Obama
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The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
James Bryce
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Failure is not an American habit.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Seneca the Younger
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No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
Herbert Hoover
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Trifling trouble find utterance deeply felt pangs are silent.
Seneca the Younger
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Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.
James Madison
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The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.
Herbert Hoover
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