I saw this — forgive me — on Twitter. The words are at once startling and yet the commonplace wisdom of the ages.
If we are to have another contest, in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
— President U.S. Grant
The passage is from an 1875 speech delivered in Iowa to the "Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee," published in 1914 by Major Gen. Grenville Dodge in his Personal Recollections of President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant and General William T. Sherman.