Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
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It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.
