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War Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
- We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
- War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
- This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere…
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
- They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
- Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
- Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,…
- I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
- He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people…
- If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
- This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may…
- If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven…
- I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries…
- War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of…
- I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
- Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,…
- I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken…
- We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses…
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