Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Abolition
-
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.
→ -
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
→ -
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
→ -
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
→