Ulysses S. Grant

“Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.”

“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.”

“I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.”

“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.”

“I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”

“Let us have peace.”

“מאוחר אותו לילה מצא אותו שרמן, חברו-למחזור בווסט פוינט (West Point), תחת עץ דולף, צווארון סגינו מורם עד אוזניו. כמו מפקד-המשנה המבוהל לפניו, גם שרמן בא לדבר על נסיגה, אבל "הבהק פתאומי של תבונה"הדריכו לנהוג אחרת. "ובכן, גרנט," אמר, "השטן בעצמו עבר עלינו היום, נכון?”

“חיי הצבא לא קסמו לי ולא חשבתי אף לרגע להישאר בצבא.”

“היה זה המזל או חוסר המזל שלי להגיע למשרת הנשיא וזאת ללא כל ניסיון פוליטי.”

“המלחמה היא קדמה.”

“הבה ונכונן שלום בינינו.”

“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”

“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”

“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”

“The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people. The Father of his Country, in his Farewell Address, uses this language: Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.”

“Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.”

“My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.”

“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.”

“i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace”

“I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.”