Quote by Thomas Jefferson
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actu

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. – Thomas Jefferson

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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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Really, when it comes to gay rights, theres two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. – Dan Savage

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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. – Maya Lin

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The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. – Reginald Wright Kauffman

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What we have found in this country, and maybe were more aware of it now, is one problem that weve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. – Ronald Reagan

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. – Victor Hugo

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