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.
ULYSSES S. GRANTIn every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.
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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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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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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.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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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.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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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.
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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
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