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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
18Th U.S. President
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I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.
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The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
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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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The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.
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Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.
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I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
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The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank all I did was try and make.
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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.
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The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
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Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.
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I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
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There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
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Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.
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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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The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
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All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.
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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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