"When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall."

-- Ulysses S. Grant

#War Quotes #Gun Quotes #Men Quotes

“Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.”
“Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.”
“It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”
“We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami”
“It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power, women rank lowest, and have fewest rights accorded them, whether of personal liberty or proprietary interest.”
“What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.”
“I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.”
“...I watch her so much that I forget it's raining at all.”

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