“I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything. I thank you for your hearty welcomes and good cheers.”

—  Ulysses S. Grant

U.S. Grant's "perfect speech" which he used on several occasions beginning in 1865, as quoted in Grant: A Biography (1982) by William S. McFeely, p. 234
1860s

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