It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. GrantThe 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.
Ulysses S. GrantLee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
Ulysses S. GrantIf 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.
Ulysses S. Grant