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"No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works."
To Gen. S. B. Buckner, Fort Donelson, Feb. 16, 1862.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer."
Despatch to Washington. Before Spottsylvania Court House, May 11, 1864.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let us have peace."
Accepting a Nomination for the Presidency, May 29, 1868.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction."
From the Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a duty."
Indorsement of a Letter relating to the Whiskey Ring, July 29, 1875.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain