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Quotes from Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee — Ulysses S. Grant

1822–1885 United States

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Keep the church and the state forever separate.

Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee (1875)

Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence.

Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee (1875)

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.

Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee (1875)

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