From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.
Vito Fossella

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.
James Longstreet

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
Patrick Gordon

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.
Jane Grey

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
Malcolm Wallop

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
George Farquhar

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Eduard Hanslick

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
Caecilius Statius

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
Ken Thompson

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Aaron Eckhart

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
Ric Keller