Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
Source: 1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 16.
“I can see … only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”
Preface.
A History of Europe (1934)
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Book I, ch. 20.
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