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We're teachers, and we have a commitment. Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

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Ulysses S. Grant
Age: 63 †
Born: 1822
Born: April 27
Died: 1885
Died: July 23
18Th U.S. President
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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.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
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My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.
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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.
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It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?
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Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
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The will of the people is the best law.
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I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.
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In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home
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...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 the heart but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition.
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... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.
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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
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The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
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The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.
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