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War has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preserve peace, happiness and prosperity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter.

— Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

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