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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....
• Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
• War is its own punishment.
• War, n.: A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
  Since we are told "In times of peace prepare for war", war is inevitable....
• Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
  -- Sir Winston Churchill...
• But in modern war...you will die like a dog for no good reason. -- Ernest Hemingway
• We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
• No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672.
  -- Sir William Temple (1628-1699) -- Memoirs, Vol. ii, p. 255...
• Wars on nations change maps. War on poverty maps change -- Muhammad Ali