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More Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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.
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.
