"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
― Thomas Jefferson
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War
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
- "I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."
- "The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery."
More In War
- "Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality."― James A. Garfield
- "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."― Ernest Hemingway
- "I tell people I won’t vote to go to war unless I’m ready to go or send my kids."― Rand Paul