Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Interpretation
Promoting peace and friendship is the best approach for humanity.
Thomas Jefferson emphasizes that a policy of peace and friendship towards all people is the most intelligent choice we can make. He expresses a hope that society will be allowed to follow this path, highlighting the importance of unity and collaboration among all individuals for a harmonious existence.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about global diplomacy.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
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