It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be ma…

Thomas Jefferson
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1943). Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction
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