In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
ULYSSES S. GRANTI 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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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.
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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 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 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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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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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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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 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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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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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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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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I know only two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.
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