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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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

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Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war? – Bianca Jagger

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Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. – Carroll Quigley

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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. – Albert Camus

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And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote

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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. – Charles Evans Hughes

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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. – Jon Meacham

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Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. – Seth Lloyd

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