It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only … - Ulysses S. Grant

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One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.

Ulysses S. Grant

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.

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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

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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

The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

Bulk, Children, Country, Reading

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

Bobby, History, Quit, Start, Thinking, 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

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