Ulysses S. Grant Quotes About Civil War
-
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.
→ -
Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
→ -
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
→ -
Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
→ -
I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
→ -
Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.
→ -
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.
→ -
I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.
→ -
...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
→ -
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
→ -
The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.
→ -
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
→ -
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.
→ -
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
→ -
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
→ -
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.
→ -
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
→ -
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
→ -
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
→ -
It will be all right if it turns out all right.
→ -
...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition.
→ -
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.
→ -
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
→ -
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
→
Related Authors
-
William Howard Taft 27th U.S. President -
William Tecumseh Sherman U.S. General -
Grover Cleveland 24th U.S. President -
P. G. T. Beauregard Military officer -
Andrew Johnson 17th U.S. President -
Stonewall Jackson Military Commander -
Jefferson Davis Former President of the Confederate States of America -
James Buchanan 15th U.S. President -
Andrew Jackson 7th U.S. President -
Chester A. Arthur 21st U.S. President -
Rutherford B. Hayes 19th U.S. President -
George B. McClellan Former Governor of New Jersey -
Theodore Roosevelt 26th U.S. President -
George Washington 1st U.S. President -
John Wilkes Booth Actor -
James A. Garfield 20th U.S. President -
Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President -
Robert E. Lee Military Officer -
Franklin Pierce 14th U.S. President -
Zachary Taylor 12th U.S. President