Ulysses S. Grant
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18 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Aug
Ulysses S. Grant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Should there be any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent counting on either side, it should be reported and denounced at once.
No man worthy of the office of president would be willing to hold the office, if counted in, placed there by fraud.
Either party can afford to be disappointed in the result.
But the country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion of illegal or false returns.
He wrote The day that brought about the result and enabled me to leave the White House as I did.
I regard as one of the happiest in my life.
Personally, I was weary of office.
I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
I entered the White House as president without any previous experience either in civil or political life.
I thought I could run the government of the United States as I did the staff of my army.
It was my mistake.
And it led me into other mistakes.
The adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment constitutes the most important event that has occurred since the nation came into life.
I could never bear to think illly of anyone whom I had selected for responsible positions unless proven guilty.
Years later, Ulysses Grant described the war like this.
For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure.
and to this day regard the war which resulted as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.
It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.
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