Ulysses S. Grant Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Time, War, Patriotic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Party, Two

  Ulysses S. Grant, John Y. Simon (1969). “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: April to September, 1861”, p.7, SIU Press

• 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 are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Tired, Thinking

  Ulysses S. Grant (1969). “Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior and Statesman”

• Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Mean

  Speech in London. "Memorial Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant". Book edited by y Stephen Merrill Allen, p. 95, 1889.

• 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

  Art, Peace, Military

  Statement to John Hill Brinton at the start of his Tennessee River Campaign, early 1862. "Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, Major and Surgeon U.S.V., 1861-1865". Book by John H. Brinton, p. 239, 1914.

• I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Bad Ass

  "A History of Militarism: Romance and Realities of a Profession". Book by Alfred Vagts, p. 27., 1937.

• Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Army, Texas

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• ...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Order, Soldier

  Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Y. Simon (1974). “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: April 1-August 31, 1862”, p.146, SIU Press

• ...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Heart, Enemy

  Ulysses S. Grant (2006). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.405, Cosimo, Inc.

• Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Thinking, History

• Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Fiction

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “The Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.398, Jazzybee Verlag

• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Peace, War, Individual

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

• It will be all right if it turns out all right.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Civil War, Turns

• The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Punishment, Mexican

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.45, Modern Library

• I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Clerks, Pockets

• Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Had Enough, Shows

• 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.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Men, White Man

• If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Men, Europe And America

• I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, History, Devil

• When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Gun, Men

  Ulysses S. Grant (2006). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.440, Cosimo, Inc.

• In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, War, Men

• Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Army, Civil War

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50”, p.482, Library of America

• The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Views, Years

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

• Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Daylight, Retreat

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