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Thomas Jefferson: “War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of…”

On the recordMarch 3, 1805
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.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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