A“WICKED”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
“I WOULD CALL ON AMERICANS TO HELP SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM INFAMY AND RUIN. TEACH YOUR RULERS THAT YOU ARE AMERICANS, NOT SLAVES, CHRISTIANS, NOT HEATHEN; MEN, NOT MURDERERS, TO KILL FOR HIRE!”
– Minister Theodore Parker
When the United States annexed Texas in 1845, Mexico vigorously opposed the move because it considered the rebellious state to
