Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

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• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Together

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • War
  • Heroes
  • Soldiers

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Never
  • Famous
  • More

• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Moment
  • Possible

• Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Never
  • Something

• The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Time
  • Never
  • Service

• You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Never
  • See

• Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Moment

• Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Trust
  • Never
  • Hippie

• No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Remember
  • Never
  • Forget

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Future
  • Young
  • Group

• History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Up
  • Important
  • Mom

• To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.

  

  W. C. Sellar
  • Horse
  • Suicide

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Never