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.

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers...

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has...

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has...

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is...

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is...

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the...

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the...

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and...

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road...

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in...

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in...

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show...

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show...

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my...

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my...

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on...

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true...

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the...

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the...