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“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”

Thomas Jefferson · Anger

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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

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