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TEB

(12,840 posts)
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 09:35 AM Feb 2021

Ulysses s Grant quote

If we are to have another contest in the near future for our nations existence. I predict that division will not be the Mason Dixon’s line. Patriotism and intelligence on the one side , and on the other side superstitions ambition and ignorance on the other.

I quoted Grant at work last night to a fellow vet who is Union teamster as I yet. He is all in on Qanon election fraud trumpig supporter.

He replied to me yea Grant was a alcoholic , I said yup he may have liked the booze and so did I at once shit I probably still like it. If it wasn’t for campral and yes Grant was booted from army over it. Yet he re-engaged to deliver us the nation we have today.
I smiled as I turned off one American news network taking lunch. I said surely today I’m on the side of patriotism and intelligence no propaganda while I eat , it’s a hobby of mine bouncing the Qanon tribe.

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Ulysses s Grant quote (Original Post) TEB Feb 2021 OP
Well done---and appreciated. nt Atticus Feb 2021 #1
i am now reading grant's memoirs/letters. he is still in west point. pansypoo53219 Feb 2021 #2
"Show me a man without vice and I'll show you a man without virtue". roamer65 Feb 2021 #3
Abe had some good quotes about Grant... Wounded Bear Feb 2021 #5
Grant and Sherman. roamer65 Feb 2021 #6
You've got a wonderful hobby. And very rewarding no doubt🙂 MLAA Feb 2021 #4

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
3. "Show me a man without vice and I'll show you a man without virtue".
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 09:54 AM
Feb 2021

-Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln saw through the problems and saw the man with Grant.

Wounded Bear

(58,634 posts)
5. Abe had some good quotes about Grant...
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 11:19 AM
Feb 2021

When told he should dismiss Grant for his drinking, Lincoln said, "I can't spare him. He fights."

It is also said that Lincoln offered to send a case of Grant's favorite whiskey to other generals in the Union army.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
6. Grant and Sherman.
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 11:59 AM
Feb 2021

They won the war for the North.

Sherman was a stake right into the heart of the Confed treason weasels.

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