Quote#Freedom
For the present, and so long as there are living witnesses of the…
Quote byUlysses S. Grant · 1822–1885
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 12.
English (original)
For the present, and so long as there are living witnesses of the great war of sections, there will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of a cause which they believed to be holy. As time passes, people, even of the South, will begin to wonder how it was possible that their ancestors ever fought for or justified institutions which acknowledged the right of property in man.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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