Branded (TV Series)

The Assassins: Part 1 (1966)

William Bryant: President Ulysses S. Grant

Quotes 

• President Ulysses S. Grant : They hung the Fisk scandal and Black Friday around my neck. They claim I'm responsible for the Whiskey Ring Fraud, the Safe Burglary Fraud, the Sanborn frauds, the subsidiary frauds, and, the last three days, the heavy rains in California.

• President Ulysses S. Grant : They tell me there's many ways of killing a man, knives, poison, explosives, trainwrecks, runaway horses, and bad cigars like this. I had four boxes of them from the Spanish ambassador, trying to butter me up so I don't recognise the revolutionists down in Cuba.

  Jason McCord : Sir, is there someone with a special reason to assassinate you?

  President Ulysses S. Grant : Someone. Everyone.

• President Ulysses S. Grant : I'll brief the troops. You see to the ammunition.

  General Joshua McCord : Don't go pulling rank on me. You're retired, same as I am.

• President Ulysses S. Grant : And, McCord, it wouldn't hurt to talk and act anti-Grant. It's the popular thing. And you've got as good a reason as any man to hate the Army and, indirectly, me. It's good to know there's a man who hates me that I can trust.