Separated by a wide ocean from the nations of Europe and from the political interests which entangle them together, with productions and wants which render our commerce and friendship useful to them and theirs to us, it can not be the…
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he played a pivotal role in the early development of the United States. Jefferson is best known as the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, which articulated the colonies' desire for freedom from British rule and laid the foundation for American democratic ideals.
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Its tendency to produce aggression on the laws and rights of other nations and to endanger the peace of our own is so obvious that I doubt not you will adopt measures for restraining it effectually in future.
We can do to each other very sensible injuries by war, but the mutual advantages of peace make that the best interest of both.
Instead, therefore, of an augmentation of military force proportioned to our extension of frontier, I propose a moderate enlargement of the capital employed in that commerce as a more effectual, economical, and humane instrument for…
These enormities appearing to be unreached by any control of their sovereigns, I found it necessary to equip a force to cruise within our own seas, to arrest all vessels of these descriptions found hovering on our coasts within the limits…
New principles, too, have been interpolated into the law of nations, founded neither in justice nor in the usage or acknowledgment of nations.
In a government bottomed on the will of all the life and liberty of every individual citizen become interesting to all.
It has done honor to themselves, entitled them to the confidence of their fellow citizens in every part of the Union, and must strengthen the general determination to protect them efficaciously under all circumstances which may occur.
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