"If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
-Ulysses S. Grant
WarView Quote
"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.“
-Ulysses S. Grant
posted in Religion
Other Quotes by Ulysses S. Grant
Discover more inspiring quotes by 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
WarView Quote
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
-Ulysses S. Grant
WarView Quote
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
-Ulysses S. Grant
WarView Quote
"I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again."
-Ulysses S. Grant
TrustView Quote
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
-Ulysses S. Grant
TrustView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race."
-Alfred Russel Wallace
ReligionView Quote
"Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken."
-Lemuel K. Washburn
ReligionView Quote
"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
-Vince Neil
ReligionView Quote
"Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism."
-Sydney Schanberg
ReligionView Quote
"Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand."
-Frederick II
ReligionView Quote
"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
-John Woolman
ReligionView Quote