The Republican journal., 1885-08-13
Grants Words.
QUOTATIONS FROM HIS SPEECHES AND CON
VERSATIONS.


NERSATIONS.
| Gen. Grant gave utterance to scores of eX-
pressions now familiar. To search for them
all, or to select the best only, would be a ted
ous task. Here are a few of the very many
| that are worth remembering:
| Let us have peace.-First inaugural Address.
| never had time To an officer asking if he
| ever felt fear on the battlefield.
| propose to fight it out on this line if it takes
| all summer.-ln the Wilderness, 1864.
The young men of the country have pecu-
liar interest In maintaining the National honor.
| First Inaugural.
If | can mount Il horse, can ride him, and
all the attendants can do is to keep away.-Pri-
Vate conversation.
When wars do come, they fall upon the
many, the producing class who are the suffer-
ers.-NeWcaste speech.
All of it. | should like to live all of my life
over again. There isn't any part of 1t should
want TO leave out.-ConversatiOn.
Labor dlsgraccs no man; unfortunately you
occasionally find men disgrace labor.-To Mid
land International Arbitration Union, Birming-
| ham, Eng.
Although soldier by profession, | have
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have never advocated it except as a means of
peace.-Speech at London.
The battle of Lookout mountain is one of the
romances of war. There was no such battle,
nor any action there worthy to be called bat
| tie. 1t is all poetry.-COnversatOn.
No terms other than unconditional and I'M
mediate surrender can be accepted. | propose
| to move immediatel, on your Works.-Message
to Gen. Buckner at Fort Donaldson, 1862.
appreciate the fact and am proud of it, that
the attentions am receiving are intended more
for our country than for me personally y.-Letter
from London to &. W. Childs. June, 1877.
Leave the matter of religion to the family
altar, the church and the private school sup
ported entirely by private contributions. Keep
the church and State for ever separate.-Des
MONIES speech, 1870
| don't Believe in strategy in the popular
understanding of the term. | use it to get up
just us close to the enemy as practicable with as
little loss of life as possible. Then, up guards,
and at em.-ln conversation
am soldier and rs you know, a soldier
must die. have been President but we know
| that the term of the Presidency expires; and
| when it has expired he is no more than dead
sodier.-'Eo the Mayor of Liverpool.
| regard Sheridan as not only one of the great
soldiers of the war, but one of the great soldiers
of the world-a man fit for the highest com
mands. No better general ever lived than
Sheridan. with Bismarck, 1877.
II has been my misfortune to be engaged in
more battles than any other general on the
other side of the Atlantic; but there was never
Il time during my command when would not
have chosen some settlement by reason rather
than the SWord.-A conversation.
The most troublesome men in public life are
those uS " a n MOI
in other peoples actions but evil motives;
who believe all public life is corrupt and moth
ing is well down unless they do il themselves.
speaking OF advocates of reform.
There are many men who would have done
better than | did under the circumstances in
which | found myself. II had never held
command; If | had fallen, there We're 10000
behind who would have followed the contest
to the end and never surrendered the Union.
Conversations
Lincoln was incontestably the greatest man
ever knew. What marked him was his sim
cerity, his kindness. his clear insight into affairs,
his firm will and clear policy. always found
him preeminently clear-minded man. The
darkest day of my life was that of Lincoin's
asslnation.-COnNersation
| never held Il council of war in my life. |
heard what men had to say-the stream of talk
at headquarterS-hut | made up my own mind,
and from my written orders my staff got their
first knowledge of what was to be done. No
living man knew of nv rlans until they were
Sneakino Of tho c,oat men have met IN
Europe, | regard Bismarck and Gamhetta AS
ana had ,ono ,alI. iii, bin He imnresses
Won ~ =, ore.t ,nnn G.mhetts also greatly
imnrcssed ~ ,,as ,,,'rh n,rased With me
Rennbliran headers in Fr,nre Conversation,
The one tbino never want ia see ooain Is a
military parade When | resigned from the
army and Went to /, fam | was Innny. When
the rehpllon can,a rnturntd tn the service
because II Vas , Iutv Mad no Thought of
rank: ali I hi ,yns To tr, and make myself
nseful,-Jn conversation Win the Duke of
Cambridge.