No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
ULYSSES S. GRANTMy failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.
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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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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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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 know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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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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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.
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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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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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