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

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. – Thucydides

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With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got. – George W. Bush

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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. – Anatole France

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Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do. – John C. Maxwell

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Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. – Robert Millikan

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I cant remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked. – Dennis Nilsen

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