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.
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.
The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.
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