Thomas Jefferson actually said...

In all events, it will replace the advances we shall have made.

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

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.

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