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.
ULYSSES S. GRANTThe friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.
More Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
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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 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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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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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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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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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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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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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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Let us have peace.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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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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