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. GRANTI have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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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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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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Let us have peace.
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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 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 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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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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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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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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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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