Ulysses S. Grant Quotes in Lincoln (2012)
Ulysses S. Grant Quotes:
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Ulysses S. Grant: [to Lincoln] By outward appearance, you're 10 years older than you were a year ago.
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Ulysses S. Grant: If you want to discuss peace with President Lincoln, consider revisions.
Alexander Stephens: If we're not to discuss a truce between warring nations, what in heaven's name can we discuss?
Ulysses S. Grant: Terms of surrender.
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Ulysses S. Grant: [Grant hands the Confederate peace commissioner's proposal back to them, covered in scribbled notes] Gentlemen, I suggest you work some changes into your proposal before you give it to the President.
[Turns and walks away. Stephens follows]
Senator R.M.T. Hunter: We're eager to be on our way to Washington.
Alexander Stephens: Mr Lincoln tell you to tell us this?
Ulysses S. Grant: [Grant takes a cup of coffee from a steward] It says 'securing peace for our two countries' and it goes on like that.
Alexander Stephens: I don't know what you...
Ulysses S. Grant: There's just one country. You and I, we're citizens of that country. I'm fighting to protect it from armed rebels.
[Pats Stephen's shoulder and goes to sit down]
Ulysses S. Grant: From you.
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- Thaddeus Stevens
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- Clerk - Edward McPherson
- Schuyler Colfax
- William Seward
- James Ashley
- Corporal Ira Clark
- Private Harold Green
- George Yeaman
- Edwin Stanton
- W.N. Bilbo
- Robert Latham
- Richard Schell
- Fernando Wood
- Alexander Stephens
- Tad Lincoln
- Robert Lincoln
- William Slade
- Elizabeth Keckley
- Judge John A. Campbell
- Montgomery Blair
- Preston Blair
- Senator Bluff Wade
- Asa Vintner Litton
- William Hutton
- James Speed
- Senator R.M.T. Hunter
- Mrs. Jolly