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More Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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.
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.
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.
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 most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
I will not move my army without onions.
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
