In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson quote

Thomas Jefferson

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1268 He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
1190 War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
1222 The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
1228 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.
1256 The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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