“God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

A toast made by Grant before his operations in the Vicksburg Campaign, (22 February 1863); as quoted in A Popular and Authentic Life of Ulysses S. Grant (1868) by Edward Deering Mansfield
1860s

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18th President of the United States 1822–1885

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