Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson quote

Thomas Jefferson

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1055 He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
1065 War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
1069 The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
1099 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.
1071 The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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