No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accept — Ulysses S. Grant

"There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment."

"I dont know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one."

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."

"I cant spare this man--he fights."

"I know the man. I like a man in the Presidential chair ... such as the poor people of my own race, as well as the poor people of every other race, can approach, and approach easily."

"I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent."