(4 quotes found)
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.”
Thomas Jefferson
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
“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”
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”