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- I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
- The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
- It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must…
- Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
- ...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them
- Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
- A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their…
- We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore…
- Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
- When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
- It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
- France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the loaves and fishes which arise out of war expenses, as…
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