Ulysses S. Grant quotes

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.
- Ulysses S. Grant, 1861

No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.
- Ulysses S. Grant, at Fort Donelson, TN, 1862

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
- Ulysses S. Grant, to Col McPherson, Shiloh, 1862

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution.
- Ulysses S. Grant

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to General Simon Bolivar Buckner at Fort Donelson, earning Grant the nickname, "Unconditional Surrender" Grant - Feb. 16, 1862

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
- Ulysses S Grant

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
- Ulysses S Grant

The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of the oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.
- Ulysses S Grant, Personal Memoirs

I do not think that there ever was a more wicked war than that waged by the United States in Mexico. I thought so at the time, when I was a youngster, only I had not moral courage enough to resign. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.
- Ulysses S Grant, Personal Memoirs

Too long denial of guaranteed right is sure to lead to revolution-bloody revolution, where suffering must fall upon the innocent as well as the guilty.
- Ulysses S Grant