A Portrait of General Grant
A Portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
To Gen. S. B. Buckner, Fort Donelson, Feb. 16, 1862.

I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
Despatch to Washington. Before Spottsylvania Court House, May 11, 1864.
Let us have peace.
Accepting a Nomination for the Presidency, May 29, 1868.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.
From the Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869.
 
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a duty.
Indorsement of a Letter relating to the Whiskey Ring, July 29, 1875.
  General Ulysses S. Grant
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