I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.

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• Ambrose Burnside:

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• Ambrose Burnside:

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• Ambrose Burnside:

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• Ambrose Burnside:

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• Ambrose Burnside:

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• Ambrose Burnside:

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• John Buchanan Robinson:

  There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

• John Buchanan Robinson:

  For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.