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• Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or no
  but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation....
• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender.
  I propose to move immediately upon your works. -- Ulysses S....
• The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war.
  Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions....
• Let us have peace. -- Ulysses S.
  Grant (1822-1885) -- Accepting a Nomination for the Presidency, May 29, 1868...
• They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
  -- Civil War General John Sedgwick, his last words, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, 1864...
• Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York, and all the clouds that loured upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
  Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, our bruised arms hung up for monuments, our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, our dreadful marches to delightful measures....
• Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the praye
  Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray....
• I praise the Frenchman, How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
  But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet....
• I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.
  -- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) -- From the Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869...