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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. - Thom

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. – Thomas Jefferson

Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson

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Banks / Banking
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Thomas Jefferson
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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson

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Generations
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Thomas Jefferson
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. – H. L. Mencken

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War

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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War

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. – Abu Abbas

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War

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. – George Orwell

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War

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People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for. – Dennis Kucinich

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it. – John Keats, letter to George and Georgiana Keats, February 24, 1819

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