If We Are To Have Another Contest In The Near Future Of Our National Existence, I Predict That The Dividing Line Will Not Be Mason And Dixon's But Between Patriotism And Intelligence On The One Side, And Superstition, Ambition And Ignorance On The Other.

-Ulysses S. Grant

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If We Are To Have

Ulysses S. Grant

If We Are To Have Another Contest In The Near Future Of Our National Existence, I Predict That The Dividing Line Will Not Be Mason And Dixon's But Between Patriotism And Intelligence On The One Side, And Superstition, Ambition And Ignorance On The Other.

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But My Later Experience Has Taught Me Two Lessons: First, That Things Are Seen Plainer After The Events Have Occurred; Second, That The Most Confident Critics Are Generally Those Who Know The Least About The Matter Criticised.

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