A quotation from Ulysses GrantIf we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason’s and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) American military leader, US President (1869–77)
Speech (1875-09-25), Address to the Army of the Tennessee, Annual Reunion, Des Moines, IowaMore about this quote: wist.info/grant-ulysses-s/8648…
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in reply to Khurram Wadee • • •The contest he predicted took place 50 years later in 1925.
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It was Clarence Darrow and the ACLU on the side of patriotism and intelligence, and William Jennings Bryan on the side of superstition, ambition, and ignorance.
1925 legal case in Tennessee, USA
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