War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
- My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
- One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
- It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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