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To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...

I posted my book report on this book back on August 27 (reply #95)

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

22 posted on 11/05/2016 6:07:17 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...

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Continued from August 19 (reply #84)

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

23 posted on 11/05/2016 6:09:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

"Nevertheless, if a sect sets up its laws as binding above the State laws, wherever the two come in conflict this claim must be resisted and suppressed at whatever cost.

That's exactly what the Obama administration says about opposition to abortion ... but I'm sure US Grant, a decent man, could never have imagined this.

[Post-emancipation] [t]he nation still lives, and the people are just as free to avoid social intimacy with the blacks as ever they were, or as they are with white people.

Time marches on, Gen. Grant. Now, the Federal government tells you with whom you may avoid intimacy, and with whom intimacy is mandatory, based on a set of criteria that changes so quickly that even they can't keep up with it.

35 posted on 11/05/2016 6:49:24 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Events. I hope we are ready for them." Kevin Williamson)

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