Top 28 Mexican War Quotes
#1. At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
David Herbert Donald
#2. A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with information that could help him. He was unwilling to get help from someone in petticoats.
Harold Holzer
#3. The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.
Ulysses S. Grant
#4. It [the Mexican War] was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.
John Steinbeck
#5. In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'
Henry David Thoreau
#6. A prominent Chicago politician, Justin Butterfield, asked if he was against the Mexican War, replied: no, I opposed one War [the War of 1812]. That was enough for me. I am now perpetually in favor of war, pestilence and famine.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#7. The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.
Harold Holzer
#8. Justin Butterfield of Illinois, a Federalist-turned-Whig, said of the Mexican-American War, said, "I opposed one war and it ruined me. From now on I am for war, pestilence and famine.
Michael S. Green
#9. Madam, I could teach lessons in hell on the subject of 'want.'
Connie Brockway
#10. There is no writers' block, it is just a gitch, a gtch, a tch, shhh. Glitch.
Jordano Quaglia
#11. Only those who have walked barefoot on gravel will appreciate soft sand beneath their feet.
Craig Smedley
#12. Now, where are [Mexican illegal immigrants] fleeing from? Mostly from Central America, where they're fleeing from the results of our policies.
Noam Chomsky
#13. There is no pain quite like that of a broken heart. But a broken heart is an open heart. When we allow ourselves to be broken, a gentle transformation takes place.
Douglas Bloch
#14. ... she was afraid of how he made her feel, because he made her feel way too much
Justine Dell
#15. I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.
Moshe Safdie
#18. We're blinded to our potential because we cannot see beyond our weakness.
Jenni Catron
#20. The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.
John Yoo
#22. I want Cuba ... I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.
Albert G. Brown
#24. My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.
Ian Holloway
#25. I was motivating him every time. When it was break point I was telling him 'hit a good return because you know you are gonna get many more kisses' [on Jamie Murray
Jelena Jankovic
#26. True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.
N.K. Jemisin
#27. Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.
Charles W. Carey Jr.
#28. Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.
Nonito Donaire
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