Ulysses S. Grant|
1822 - 1885
President of the U.S. (1869-1877). Military general who became commander of the armies of the United States and who forced General Robert E. Lee to surrender and end the American Civil War.
|The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.|
1885 - from his memoirs
|I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.|
Mar. 4, 1869 - from his inaugural address