"The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee with just such qualities, but I had known him personally, and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this."

-- Ulysses S. Grant

#Country Quotes #Army Quotes #People Quotes

“And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?”
“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
“All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!”
“Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.”

Source : "Voices of the dead". Book by John Cumming, p.8: The Speaking Dead, 1854.
“One even tries to figure out why Donald Trump is so admiring of a leader who has cracked down on journalists and is suspected of using even violence, cracked down on civil society, ruling with an iron fist within Russia. To look with admiration on that sort of domestic leadership, I think is just really inconsistent with American values.”
“A lot of girls in L.A. just stand in the corner wondering 'Who's gonna talk to me? Who am I gonna diss?'”
“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.”
“A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.”

Source : "Six questions for John Avlon". Interview with John Avlon, www.economist.com. May 16, 2010.

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