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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant;[a] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States. A prominent United States Army general during the American Civil War, Grant led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy with the supervision of Abraham Lincoln. As the 18th President of the United States (1869–77) Grant led the Republicans in their efforts to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery during Reconstruction.

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I will not move my army without onions.

Army, Food, Move, Moving, Onions

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Army, Battle, Front, Judging

The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.

Agriculture, Army, Farm, Happy, Military, Resigned

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

Place, Presidency, Wanted

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

Done, Followed, Men, Union, Unions

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

Generations, Government, People, Suppose, Under

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.

Art, Keep, Military, Moving, Peace, War

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

Parties, Party, Traitors, Trust, Two, War

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist. " All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

Attributed, Exist, Saying, Views, War, Years

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Moving, Surrender, Terms, Unconditional, Unconditional Love

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

Back, Happens, No Turning Back, President, See, Whatever Happens

The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.

Government, Oppressed, Patriotic, Strong, Withdrawal

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. . . . I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.

Acquiescently, Benefits, Church, Government, Receiving, Sum

The theory of government changes with general progress.

General, Government, Progress, Theory

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

Church, Declare, Forever, Free, Presidential

When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.

Gun, Lines, Men, Sent, Surrender, War

I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

Errors, History, Instance, Intent, Law, People

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

Effective, Know, Law, Obnoxious, Presidential, Success

If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America. . . War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

Europe And America, Fail, Men, Slavish, War

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

Clerks, Except, Paper, Pass, Pockets, War

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