I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
ULYSSES S. GRANTIt was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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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 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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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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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 you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
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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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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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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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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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Let us have peace.
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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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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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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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