Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885The quotations of
Ulysses S. Grant
President of the United States from 1869 to 1877
1822–1885
15 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Race and Slavery. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 67- Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 3
I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
Dispatch to Washington, during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (11 May 1864)- Endorsement of a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring (29 July 1875)
- To General S.B. Buckner, Fort Donelson (16 February 1862)
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.
Speech at Midland International Arbitration Union, Birmingham, United Kingdom (1877)- Sixth State of the Union Address (1874)
- Speech to the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa (1875)
I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.
To Isaac N. Morris (1868), as quoted in The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: July 1, 1868–October 31, 1869, by Ulysses S. Grant, p. 37- Message to the Senate and House of Representatives (1870)
- Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Conclusion
- Conversation reported in John Russell Young, Around the World with General Grant (1879), p. 362
- Second Inaugural Address (1873)
We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.
Conversation with Otto von Bismarck, Berlin (June 1878), as recorded in John Russell Young, Around the World with General Grant (1879), vol. 1, p. 416- Memorandum: Reasons why Santo Domingo should be annexed to the United States (1869-1870?)
