Quote#Freedom
Let us labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect…
Quote byUlysses S. Grant · 1822–1885
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee (1875).
English (original)
Let us labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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