"[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.”

“I like to see the people awake and alert.”

“I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.”

“A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.”

“In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.”

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

“Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.”

“Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.”

“One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.”