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Letter "U" » Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
«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.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Superstition
| Keywords:
intended, superstitions, turn back
«I know only two tunes: One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
doodle, one of them, tunes, Yankee-Doodle, Yankee
«Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.»
«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»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| Keywords:
contest, fall behind, surrendered, under the circumstances
«I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say - the stream of talk at headquarters - but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| Keywords:
council, council of, headquarters, orders, staff, staffed, staffs, staff of life, stream
«No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.»
«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.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
acted, Best interests, conscientious, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, instance, intent
«In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home»
«It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Conflict,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
Atlantic, battles, engaged, Other side, settlement, settlements, The other side, The Settlement, The Sword
«It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Fortune,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
Chief Executive, executive, Office of, previous, The Office
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