If I were a Mexican I would tell you: Have you not room enough in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.


Speech to the U.S. Senate, opposing appropriations for the Mexican War [February 11,1847]


If I were a Mexican I would tell you: Have you not room enough in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine we will greet you...

If I were a Mexican I would tell you: Have you not room enough in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine we will greet you...

If I were a Mexican I would tell you: Have you not room enough in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine we will greet you...

If I were a Mexican I would tell you: Have you not room enough in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine we will greet you...