Ulysses S. Grant quotes

1822–1885 · Point Pleasant, OH

• I would also call your attention to the importance of correcting an evil that, if permitted to continue, will probably lead to great trouble in our land before the close of the nineteenth century. It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

• I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly, so that there could be no mistaking it.

• Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.