Conversations with General Grant Quotes

“can understand how a kindly, patriotic man like Hayes would be charmed by the prospect. I was as anxious for such a policy as Mr. Hayes. There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it. They have not forgotten the war.”
― Ulysses S. Grant, Conversations with General Grant

“Some of them failed, like [General Joseph “Fighting Joe”] Hooker at Chancellorsville [April 30 to May 6, 1863], because when they won a victory they lost their heads, and did not know what to do with it.”
― Ulysses S. Grant, Conversations with General Grant