Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. - Thomas Jeffe

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. – Thomas Jefferson

Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. – Thomas Jefferson

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. – Thomas Jefferson

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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. – Neville Chamberlain

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I tell people I wont vote to go to war unless Im ready to go or send my kids. – Rand Paul

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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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In war there is no prize for runner-up. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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