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Ulysses S. Grant

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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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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.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.


— Ulysses S. Grant


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About Ulysses S. Grant

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Did you know about Ulysses S. Grant?

George H. President Grant effectively enforced the Civil Rights of Southern freedmen through the use of Justice Department in coordination with the U. Thomas and Army of the Cumberland under order from Grant overtook Confederate picket trenches at the base of Missionary Ridge.

Grant's two consecutive terms as President stabilized the nation after the American Civil War and during the turbulent Reconstruction period that followed. Grant won passage of the Fifteenth Amendment; giving constitutional protection for African-American voting rights. Upset over uncontrolled violence in the South and having desired to protect African American citizenship President Grant effectively destroyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871.

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