Thomas Jefferson actually said...

But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be ...

War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement.

I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which ...