Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Ulysses S. Grant Quotes Click here for Ulysses S. Grant books Cigars, Whiskey and Winning: Leadership Lessons from General Ulysses S. Grant "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." "God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both." "Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also." "Laws are to govern all alike — those opposed as well as those who favor them." "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution." "As the United States is the freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathize with all people struggling for liberty and self-government; but while so sympathizing it is due to our honor that we should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations and from taking an interested part, without invitation, in the quarrels between different nations or between governments and their subjects." "I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world in His own good time to become one nation, speaking one language, when armies and navies will no longer be required." "No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty." "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the State forever separate." "It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. From the age of 17 I had never even witnessed the excitement attending a Presidential campaign but twice antecedent to my own candidacy, and at but one of them was I eligible as a voter." "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." "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." "I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail." "I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other one isn't." "The will of the people is the best law." "The right of revolution is an inherent one." "It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies." "Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true." |
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