Grant Pitched

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    I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
    —Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)

    Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)