994 – “Let us labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion.”

-Ulysses S Grant, 18th President of the United States of America

Quote Number: 911

Source: Grant, Ulysses S. “Speech at the Annual Reunion of the Society of the Army of Tennessee.” Speech. Des Moines, Iowa. September 29, 1875. In Words of Our Hero: Ulysses S Grant. Jeremiah Champlin, editor. D Lothrop and Company: Boston, Massachusettes. Pg 31. Online at The Internet Archive Here.

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