Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
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The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.
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Let us labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion.
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There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
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The Jews are a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also department orders and are herein expelled from the department within 24 hours from receipt of this order.
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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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I do not pretend to sustain the order. At the time of its publication I was insensed by a reprimand recieved from Washington for permitting acts which the Jews, within my lines, were engaged in.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything. I thank you for your hearty welcomes and good cheers.
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
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The negro troops are easier to preserve discipline among than our white troops, and I doubt not will prove equally good for garrison duty. All that have been tried have fought bravely.
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
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Water.
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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There had to be an end of slavery. Then we were fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to destroy him. No convention, no treaty was possible. Only destruction.
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Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
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It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we otherwise should have made... But this war was a fearful lesson, and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future.
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That is, by arming the negro we have added a powerful ally. They will make good soldiers and taking them from the enemy weaken him in the same proportion they strengthen us. I am therefore most decidedly in favor of pushing this policy to the enlistment of a force sufficient to hold all the South falling into our hands and to aid in capturing more.