Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.
Grant, Ulysses S. "Second Inaugural Address." A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, compiled by James D. Richardson, Vol. 7, Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1898, p. 223.
Ulysses S. Grant was an American military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as Secretary of War.