I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. — Thomas Jefferson. Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 Miscellaneous, The Future
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.