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The will of the people is the best law.
— Ulysses S. Grant
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
— John Lubbock
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.
— Allan Sherman
Ulysses'. No one reads him anymore. No one reads anything anymore. They think Browning is a gun.
— Richard Flanagan
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The theory of government changes with general progress.
— Ulysses S. Grant
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
— Raymond Queneau
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
— Abraham Cowley
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Life often presents you with difficult choices. But who made up the rules? Why choose at all?
— Ulysses Brave
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
— James Patterson
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
— Ulysses S. Grant
A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect,
— Ulysses S. Grant
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
— Orson Scott Card
But for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.
— Ulysses S. Grant
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten then he who continues the attack wins.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I knew the enemy were ready to break and only wanted a little encouragement from us to go quickly and join their friends who had started earlier.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.
— Ulysses S. Grant
One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaablessing it rather than in love with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
— Raymond Queneau
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
— Ulysses S. Grant
We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?
— Ulysses S. Grant
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I'm afraid I'm elected.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.
— Joachim Du Bellay
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
— Vikram Seth
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.
— Ulysses S. Grant
He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.
— James Joyce
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
— Ulysses S. Grant
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
— Ulysses S. Grant
War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. — Alfred Tennyson
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Ah, you know my weaknessesmy children and my horses. — 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.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.
— Sara Sheridan