“If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest”
Thomas Jefferson
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.”
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.”
Archibald MacLeish
“It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.”
Alexai Sayle
