154 Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant

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

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral.

I’m afraid I’m elected.

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

In politics I am growing indifferent – I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

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

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don’t see how I can ever trust any human being again.

I have never advocated war except as means of peace, so seek peace, but prepare for war. Because war... War never changes. War is like winter and winter is coming.

As time passes, people, even of the South, will begin to wonder how it was possible that their ancestors ever fought for or justified institutions which acknowledged the right of property in man.