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• Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a duty.
  -- Ulysses S....
• Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth - to see it like it is, and tell it like it is - to find the truth, to speak the truth, and live the truth.
  -- Richard Nixon, accepting the Presidential Nomination, 1968...
• The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war.
  Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions....
• Let no guilty man escape. -- U.S. Gra
• I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
  -- Ulysses S....
• 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....
• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Thomas Paine
• You really have to be careful of politicians who have no further ambitio
  they may run for the presidency. -- Harry S. Truma...
• I think it's pretty sad that someone can take $300 million and try to buy the presidency of the United States.
  -- Marilyn Quayle, on Ross Perot, who, as of the time she said this (May 29), had spent less than $...