Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. - Thom

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. – Thomas Jefferson

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Gun Control
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I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? – Thomas Jefferson

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War
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson

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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. – Desiderius Erasmus

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War

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesnt know what war is except from television. – Sophia Loren

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War

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. – Ron Paul

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War

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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War

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The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you dont think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work. – Herbie Mann

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[Man] asks from prose, only under a more obscure and indefinite form, what he expects from poetry; and indeed, where is the actual boundary between poetry and prose? and how can one help owning that prose is but poetry gradually but never entirely extinguished or calmed down? – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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