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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, National Defense

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1789-1792”, p.89, Cosimo, Inc.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, People

Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, People

Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.288

I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, Believe

Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.152, Algora Publishing

I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, Punishment

Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.135, Algora Publishing

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, Blessing

Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.236, Algora Publishing

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, Events

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, Revolution

Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.168, Princeton University Press

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, War, Views

Letter to Noah Worcester, November 26, 1817.

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, Giving, Objects

Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.103, Algora Publishing