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QUOTATIONS BY AND ABOUT ULYSSES S. GRANT
"I am not aware of ever having
used a profane expletive in my life...."
"One of my superstitions had
always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back,
or stop until the thing intended was accomplished. I have frequently started
to go places where I had never been and to which I did not know the way,
depending upon making inquiries on the road, and if I got past the place
without knowing it, instead of turning back, I would go until a road was
found turning in the right direction, take that, and come in by the other
side."
"The Southern rebellion was
largely the outgrowth of the Mexican War. Nations, like individuals,
are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the
most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times."
(Written in the 1880s as Grant reflected on a war in which he fought in the
1840s.)
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"...His whole life was focused
on his mastery of the fact and his 'Memoirs' was its record: war is an act:
to make war is to kill."
"He was consummately modest and quietly confident....It was a primary law
with Grant that he should never in the smallest way appear to be pressing
for honors."
"Grant had a gift given to few men; he could reach ordinary people without
condescending to them."
William S. McFeely on Ulysses S. Grant
"...As soon as slavery fired
upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to
slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to
the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle."
Grant's comment to Bismarck on his trip around the
world, in 1878
"It occurred to me at once
that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This
was a view...I had never taken before; but was one I never forgot
afterwards. From that event to the close of the war, I never
experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more
or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my
forces as I had his." (In Grant's first engagement of the war, he
prepared to attack the encampment of the Confederate colonel Thomas Harris,
but found it deserted.)
"...the eternal law
That who can saddle Opportunity
Is God's elect"
James Russell Lowell "On a Bust of General Grant"
"He keeps his own counsel,
padlocks his mouth, while his countenance in battle or repose...indicates
nothing--that is gives no expression of his feelings and no evidence of his
intentions."
Charles A. Dana on Grant (Dana was journalist of the
New York Tribune, and later Assistant Secretary of War.)
“Experience
proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no
matter whether right or wrong, occupied no enviable place in life or
history. Better for him, individually, to advocate 'war,
pestilence, and famine,' than to act as obstructionist to a war already
begun."
Ulysses S. Grant (Personal
Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
Vol. 1, p. 68)
"The occupation, separation and annexation (of Texas) were,
from the inception of the movement to its final consummation, a conspiracy
to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the
American Union. (Personal Memoirs of
U.S. Grant. Vol 1, pp. 54, 55)
"His imperturbability is
amazing. I am in doubt whether to call it greatness or stupidity."
James A. Garfield on Grant (Garfield was the 20th
President of the United States.)
"Grant's whole character was a mystery even to himself--a combination of
strength and weakness not paralleled by any of whom I have read in Ancient
or Modern History...."
William Tecumseh Sherman (Famous Civil War general who
fought alongside Grant at Vicksburg and Chattanooga)
"The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb
is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all
three."
Ulysses S. Grant (An undated note written during
the last days of Grant's excruciatingly painful battle with cancer)
Grant was the 18th President of the United States and the Union's top
general. He also fought in the Mexican War.
By far the best biography I
have ever seen on Grant is William S. McFeely's "Grant" (W.W. Norton &
Co.). McFeely's book won the Pulitzer Prize.
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