154 Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

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

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect,

If 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.

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

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

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.