Tag: Ulysses S. Grant
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
Ulysses S. Grant
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Let us have peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
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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.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I know only two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.
Ulysses S. Grant
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
Ulysses S. Grant
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
Ulysses S. Grant
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant