Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:01 PM

Nevilledog (20,310 posts)

Prescient Ulysses S. Grant quote

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"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." -- Ulysses S. Grant
7:19 AM · Jan 13, 2021

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12 replies	Author	Time	Post
Prescient Ulysses S. Grant quote (Original post)	Nevilledog	Jan 13	OP
an astute appraisal of our times. n/t	gladium et scutum	Jan 13	#1
Wow Prescient! TY Rt!	Cha	Jan 13	#2
Wow. Nailed it.	captain queeg	Jan 13	#3
It's eerie how well that quote applies to the present. nt	crickets	Jan 13	#4
Grant was a smart cookie.	roamer65	Jan 13	#5
Grant is looking awfully good	MyOwnPeace	Jan 13	#6
And the Republicans can't call him a "libbrul."	DFW	Jan 13	#7
That was back when the Republicans were the progressive party.	Aristus	Jan 14	#12
Ulysses S. Grant is the most underrated President in US history. His reputation was damaged...	NNadir	Jan 13	#8
Grant's Secretary of War resigned. He was impeached and tried after he left office.	Marcuse	Jan 14	#9
Grant is an historic figure I would have truly liked to meet.	Brother Mythos	Jan 14	#10
Ulysses S. Grant	PlanetBev	Jan 14	#11

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:03 PM

gladium et scutum (526 posts)

1. an astute appraisal of our times. n/t

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:06 PM

Cha (268,470 posts)

2. Wow Prescient! TY Rt!

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:06 PM

captain queeg (5,321 posts)

3. Wow. Nailed it.

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:28 PM

crickets (15,691 posts)

4. It's eerie how well that quote applies to the present. nt

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:33 PM

roamer65 (24,676 posts)

5. Grant was a smart cookie.

He just trusted other people way too much.

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:37 PM

MyOwnPeace (11,513 posts)

6. Grant is looking awfully good

in his latest "revival."

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:48 PM

DFW (41,308 posts)

7. And the Republicans can't call him a "libbrul."

Grant was a Republican!

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Thu Jan 14, 2021, 06:08 PM

Aristus (53,946 posts)

12. That was back when the Republicans were the progressive party.

And Grant was pretty progressive for his day. His one sad misstep was the General Order expelling Jews from, I think it was, Memphis. He was ordered to retract it, and later expressed shame and regret for it.

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Wed Jan 13, 2021, 07:35 PM

NNadir (26,386 posts)

8. Ulysses S. Grant is the most underrated President in US history. His reputation was damaged...

...by racists who called themselves "reformers."

I consider him the second greatest President of the 19th century after Lincoln.

Without his Presidency there would be no United States as we know it.

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Thu Jan 14, 2021, 05:48 PM

Marcuse (3,756 posts)