Famous quotes containing the words john, ambassador and/or mexico:
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”
—John Brown (1800–1859)
“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)