If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
ULYSSES S. GRANTThe 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.
More Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
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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.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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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.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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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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I know only two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.
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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 pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet.
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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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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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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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