Ulysses S. Grant

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

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.

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.

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Let us have peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

The friend in 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.

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.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.