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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.
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I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
Despatch to Washington. Before Spottsylvania Court House, May 11,
1864.
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Let us have peace.
Accepting a Nomination for the Presidency, May 29, 1868.
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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.
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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.
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