"Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year."

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When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.

— Thomas Jefferson