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The theory of government changes with general progress.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Ulysses S. Grant
Age: 63 †
Born: 1822
Born: April 27
Died: 1885
Died: July 23
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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.
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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 to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
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Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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It will be all right if it turns out all right.
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Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
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As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.
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I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
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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 as you can, and keep moving on.
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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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...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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The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
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There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.
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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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Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
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