Quote Of The Day: Ulysses S. Grant

As I understand it, Americans began pouring into Texas (oh, the ironies) when it was still part of Mexico. Eventually, the U.S. did all it could to annex it culminating into the violent Mexican-American War. It wasn't necessarily a war supported by all either:

Former President Ulysses S. Grant was an officer under General Taylor wrote in his memoirs:

Generally, the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation was consummated or not; 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. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.
 

Well, Thomas Jefferson wasn't exactly for expansion in theory but then he dispatched Lewis and Clar and bought Louisiana.