Quotes from Ulysses S. Grant

I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

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

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. 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.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

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.

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.

It will be all right if it turns out all right.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

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

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

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.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

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

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

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.

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

I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.