Quote by Thomas Jefferson
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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Life
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. – Thomas Jefferson

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Change
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other. – Thomas Jefferson

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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. – Amelia Earhart

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Ive always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. – Brad Pitt

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Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that theyre going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. – John W. Vessey, Jr.

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I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. – Gene Tierney

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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. – Hannah Arendt

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The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. – George Patton

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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. – Thomas Huxley

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. – James Russell Lowell

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