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• The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Thinking, Suffering, Three

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• Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Leadership, Two, Fields

  General Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]”, p.239, Pickle Partners Publishing

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

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Civil War, Turns

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• I will not move my army without onions.

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  Food, Moving, Army

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• 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.

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• There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

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  Men, Important Events, Choices

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

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• The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, Children, Reading

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

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  Party, Patriotic, Political

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

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  Patriotic, Men, Waiting

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50”, p.470, Library of America

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• I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

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  Errors, Law, People

  Eighth State of the Union Address, en.wikisource.org. December 05, 1876.

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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 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”

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• But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Two, Events, Lessons

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished. I have frequently started to go places where I had never been and to which I did not know the way, depending upon making inquiries on the road, and if I got past the place without knowing it, instead of turning back, I would go until a road was found turning in the right direction, take that, and come in by the other side.

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  Past, Knowing, Inquiry

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• A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.

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  Children, Hero, Love Is

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• I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

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  Yankees, Two, Civil War

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

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

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  War, Mean, Patriotic

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

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• It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

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  Exercise, Golf, White

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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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  President, Whatever Happens, No Turning Back

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

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• I'm afraid I'm elected.

  Ulysses S. Grant

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

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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.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Order, Class, Regulation

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• Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

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  Children, Growing Up, School

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Mind

  Ulysses S Grant (2014). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: Volumes One and Two”, p.889, Open Road Media

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• I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Peace, Judging, Mind

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• 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

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• I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Believe, Army, Navy

  Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Y. Simon, Aaron M. Lisec (2000). “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: 1873”, p.62, SIU Press

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