The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant

5 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Subjects. Sea Studies. Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.— filed under Duty
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.— filed under Occupations-Law
Let us have peace.— filed under Peace
also RAY-History of the Rebellion. P. 48. (1752). I*** purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. S.— filed under War
Spottsylvania Court House. May 11, 1864. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.— filed under War
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