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- Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Mr. Dumas, March 24, 1793
- That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Benjamin Waring and others, March 23, 1801
- For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), Tractatus Politicus
- Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address to the United States Senate, January 22, 1917
- People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
- Walter E. Washington, Mayor of Washington, D.C., c. 1971
- In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address, Columbus, Ohio, September 4, 1919
- I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), The Federalist
- Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Black Cat, 1843
- In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
- The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conservative, Boston, Massachusetts, December 9, 1841
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