Peace: A Friendly Relationship

By |2016-11-26T09:52:16-06:00May 5th, 2012|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Quotation, Republicanism, Thomas Jefferson|

“Always a friend to peace, and believing it to promote eminently the happiness and prosperity of nations, I am ever unwilling that it should be disturbed, until greater and more important interests call for an appeal to force. Whenever that shall take place, I feel a perfect confidence that the energy and enterprise displayed by [...]