On the record
These propositions are too absurd to be entertained for a moment by thinking or honest people.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Grant dismisses certain financial propositions as absurd and unworthy of serious consideration.
Share
More from Ulysses S. Grant
A revival of shipbuilding, and particularly of iron steamship building, is of vast importance to our national prosperity.
Texas and the territory brought into the Union in consequence of annexation, were purchased with both blood and treasure; and Texas, with a domain greater than that of any European state except Russia, was permitted to retain as state…
But now, as in its past history, the United States should carefully avoid the false lights which might lead it into the mazes of doubtful law and of questionable propriety, and adhere rigidly and sternly to the rule, which has been its…
A power should exist complete in its organization, ready to take and able to maintain its place among the nations of the earth.
Other voices in this conversation
