Inspirational Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant (American Head of State)

Ulysses S Grant (1822–85,) fully Simpson Ulysses Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant, was an American Civil War general and the 18th president of the United States 1869–77. As supreme commander of the Union armies, he defeated the Confederate army in 1865. As president, he was unable to check widespread political corruption and administrative inefficiency.

Born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, Grant graduated from West Point in 1843 and served in the Mexican War 1846–48 and the Civil War. After he masterminded the Vicksburg Campaign 1862–63, President Abraham Lincoln gave him overall command of the Union forces in 1864. Grant coordinated the final campaigns and accepted the surrender of the Confederate army’s General Robert E. Lee in 1865. After Lincoln’s assassination, Grant served under President Andrew Johnson as secretary of war 1867–68.

According to historians, Grant was an excellent general but a mediocre politician. He did not want or need the presidency but entered the White House with considerable reluctance. His administration achieved foreign policy successes (thanks to Secretary of State Hamilton Fish) but failed to prevent the growth of domestic corruption. He was easily reelected in 1872, but he surrounded himself with corrupt men who embroiled his administration in one political scandal after another. Grant himself, however, was never personally involved with any scandal.

Grant retired at the end of his second term but battled personal financial failure and throat cancer for the rest of his life. He wrote Personal Memoirs (2 vols., 1885–86) about his military exploits. Published by Mark Twain just weeks after Grant’s death, they are bestselling classics of American military history.

A popular biography is Michael Korda’s Ulysses S Grant: The Unlikely Hero (2004.)

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The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship

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.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Endurance, Resolve, Perseverance, Beliefs

Too long denial of guaranteed right is sure to lead to revolution—bloody revolution, where suffering must fall upon the innocent as well as the guilty.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Revolution

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Guilt

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Laziness, Labor

I know only two tunes. One them is “Yankee Doodle” and the other isn’t.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Music

When wars do come, they fall upon the many, the producing class, who are the sufferers.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: War

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: War

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

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Lawyers, Law

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Labor, Work

The War is over – the rebels are our countrymen again.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Unity

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. 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. “Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.”
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Bible

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 as often as you can, and keep moving on.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: War, Moving on

Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, and no leading class, and nothing to preserve.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Labor

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence

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