President Fact Country Civil War general 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. - Ulysses S. Grant
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. - Ulysses S. Grant
Execution I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. - Ulysses S. Grant
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front. - Ulysses S. Grant
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten then he who continues the attack wins. - Ulysses S. Grant
Fortune It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. - Ulysses S. Grant
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. - Ulysses S. Grant
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. - John F. Kennedy
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. - Gerald R. Ford
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. - John F. Kennedy