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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.


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NICK OFFERMAN Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none.
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THOMAS WOODS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
EUGENE CERNAN We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
GENE CERNAN We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We a...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will ne...
GESHE KELSANG GYATSO I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which t...
JOHN ADAMS A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.
RICHARD DAWKINS We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worshi...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
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KATHY REYNOLDS I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
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JAMES K. POLK I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.
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JOHN GREEN Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and fri...
BLACK KETTLE Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for th...
KENNY MARCHANT .... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL You can be all that you wish and desire to be.
Take the challenge and pursue your most cherishe...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and st...
FEDERICA MONTSENY This really exposes Barak's real intentions when it comes to peacemaking, that either (Israelis) bea...
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MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN He wants to do everything he can for the varsity program. He wants to make Thomas Jefferson as good ...
DON POWELL As we get old, with hair as white a snow, may our friendship continue to grow, If there is to ever b...
RITA MARIA DIAZ I am saying Manny remains willing to consider trade possibilities that the Red Sox may wish to pursu...
GREG GENSKE My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
ROBIN QUIVERS We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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FRANK STAFFEN You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, wh...
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DWIGHT D EISENHOWER We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to lea...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14
BIBLE Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
BIBLE Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14
BIBLE Seek peace, and pursue it. (Proverbs 34:14)
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RONALD REAGAN If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.
BAKUL DHOLAKIA If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
WILLIAM BENNETT All it requires for being a champion for peace is a heart that believes in peace. Believe that I AM ...
JONATHAN CHEN Raise your love, raise it high. Don't let the world and its circumstances make you hate.
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NORMAN ANGELL Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our e...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end...
MAX LERNER We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our ars...
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MOS DEF Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each o...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate ob...
THOMAS JEFFERSON My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there...
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We seldom report of having eaten too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tranquility is the old man's milk.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
THOMAS JEFFERSON