Thomas Jefferson actually said...

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.

What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?

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 ...