I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

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  Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

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  I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

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  The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and

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