„The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.“

— Ulysses S. Grant

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„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
„Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.“
— Carl von Clausewitz
„War is murder writ large.“
— Carl Sagan
„The Mexicans were badly commanded, and there was very little hard fighting during that war, at least nothing to be compared with what was seen afterward in our own. Our soldiers had only to show the bayonet at the Mexicans and they would run. As to the bowie-knife, I do not think one was used during the war. It was a pity to see good troops used as the Mexican soldiers were in those campaigns. I do not think a more incompetent set of officers ever existed than those who commanded the Mexicans. With an able general the Mexicans would make a good fight, for they are a courageous people. But I do not suppose any war was ever fought with reference to which so many romances were invented as the war in Mexico.“
— Ulysses S. Grant
„The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these".“
— Jr.