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Ulysses Simpson Grant war ein US-amerikanischer General und Politiker. Er war Oberbefehlshaber des US-Heeres im Sezessionskrieg und von 1869 bis 1877 der 18. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. April 1822 – 23. Juli 1885
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“Mister Crawford, nobody is more sick of this war than I am. That's why we're moving south, to end it as quickly as possible. Lincoln said at Gettysburg we must preserve this nation so a government of the people won't perish, but you newspaper boys never pay much attention to that, did you?”

North and South, Book II https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=vopVVBiC80g#General_Grant_s_Strategies (1986).
In fiction, <span class="plainlinks"> North and South, Book II http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090490/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast (1986)</span>

“I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.”

Dispatch to Washington, during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (11 May 1864).
1860s

“Let us have peace.”

Accepting the Republican Party's nomination for the U.S. presidency (29 May 1868).
1860s
Variante: Let us have peace.

“Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant.”

As quoted in The New York Times http://www.granthomepage.com/intlongstreet.htm (24 July 1885).

“I only know two tunes. One is Yankee Doodle, and the other one isn't.”

Quoted by Robert C. Winthrop in a letter http://books.google.com/books?id=kSUdAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+only+know+two+tunes+one+is+yankee+doodle+and+the+other+isn't%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage to George W. Childs (c. 1889).

“No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.”

Battle of Fort Donelson Feb 1862 as quoted in "United States of America,” by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey, White House Historical Association, 2006 Whitehouse.gov https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/ulyssessgrant
1860s

“Mister President. Win or lose, we'll keep hitting.”

Saving Lincoln https://youtube.com/u0LqZVIFMYg?t=48 (2013), written by Salvador Litvak and Nina D. Litvak
In fiction, Saving Lincoln (2013)

“You know I can't abide curse-words, but this time I'm going to use one because I am damn tired of hearing what Lee's going to do to us! Start thinking about what we're doing to do to him. Some of you think he's about to turn a double somersault and land in our rear and on both flanks at the same time.”

North and South, Book II https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=vopVVBiC80g#General_Grant_s_Strategies (1986).
In fiction, <span class="plainlinks"> North and South, Book II http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090490/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast (1986)</span>

“The reporter's right; people are tired of war. If we don't destroy Lee's army? Lincoln could be defeated in November, and the Union? Gone forever. Only unconditional surrender will give us a lasting peace.”

North and South, Book II https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=vopVVBiC80g#General_Grant_s_Strategies (1986).
In fiction, <span class="plainlinks"> North and South, Book II http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090490/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast (1986)</span>

“Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.”

Dispatch to General Henry W. Halleck (1 August 1864), from City Point, Virginia.
1860s

“Corps, division, and post commanders will afford all facilities for the completion of the Negro regiments now organizing in this department. Commissioners will issue supplies, and quarter-masters will furnish stores, on the same requisitions and returns as are required for other troops. It is expected that all commanders will especially exert themselves in carrying out the policy of the Administration, not only in organizing colored regiments and rendering them efficient, but also in removing prejudices against them.”

Order to corps, division, and post commanders https://books.google.com/books?id=wqJBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=%22but+also+in+removing+prejudices+against+them%22+%22grant%22&source=bl&ots=zG336mXnGl&sig=GPSCXL3D9zfrVo9I7G2ZcBv2j_o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCgQ6AEwA2oVChMI3KSiwcSkxwIVi6CACh1v9gF-#v=onepage&q=%22but%20also%20in%20removing%20prejudices%20against%20them%22%20%22grant%22&f=false, Milliken's Bend, Louisiana.
1860s

“I have never been in a fight where the situation wasn't desperate at one point, colonel.”

North and South, Book II https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=vopVVBiC80g#General_Grant_s_Strategies (1986).
In fiction, <span class="plainlinks"> North and South, Book II http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090490/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast (1986)</span>

“You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.”

Reply to brokers who urged him to lend $44 million from the U.S. Treasury reserve to banks. Harper's Weekly (11 October 1873).
1870s

“I am anxious to get as many of these negro regiments as possible, and to have them full, and completely equipped. I am particularly desirous of organizing a regiment of heavy artillery from the negroes, to garrison this place, and shall do so as soon as possible.”

At Vicksburg (11 July 1863), as quoted in Words of our Hero: Ulysses S. Grant https://archive.org/stream/wordsofourheroul00gran/wordsofourheroul00gran_djvu.txt, edited by Jeremiah Chaplin, Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, p. 13.
1860s

“God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.”

A toast made by Grant before his operations in the Vicksburg Campaign, (22 February 1863); as quoted in A Popular and Authentic Life of Ulysses S. Grant (1868) by Edward Deering Mansfield
1860s

“If we don't admit defeat, we're not defeated.”

North and South, Book II https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=vopVVBiC80g#General_Grant_s_Strategies (1986).
In fiction, <span class="plainlinks"> North and South, Book II http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090490/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast (1986)</span>

“Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.”

Quelle: 1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 67.

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