42 ordspråk av General Ulysses S. Grant
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Ulysses S. Grant föddes den
27 April 1822 och dog den 23 Juli
1885 - (1869-77), famous commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Hitta foto... Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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Hold 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.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.
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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.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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I know only two tunes: One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't.
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I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say - the stream of talk at headquarters - but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans
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