Ulysses S. Grant
Quotations

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

 

"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. "

 

"My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent."

- At the end of his second term

 

"No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works."

- To Simon Bolivar Buckner, under siege, Fort Donelson, 16 Feb 1862