There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.
Ulysses S. GrantEveryone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
Ulysses S. GrantI know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. GrantHold 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.
Ulysses S. GrantThe 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.
Ulysses S. Grant