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@drkickaha.bsky.social

Arguably, it was the same divide the first time. Honestly the entire passage quoted at snopes is solid. daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

daringfireball.netUlysses S. Grant on the Future Dividing LineLink to: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/grant-next-civil-war/

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@drkickaha.bsky.social

3 Aug

The original speech is at: pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-io... "Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school."

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@drkickaha.bsky.social

3 Aug

"Resolve that either the state or Nation, or both combined shall support institutions of learning sufficient to afford to every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan or atheistical tenets."

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@drkickaha.bsky.social

3 Aug

"Leave the matter of religion to the family circle the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate." Sounds like a great idea. We should try that.