Ocupation: 3rd U.S. President
Life: April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
Birthday: April 13
Death: July 4
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
source: Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.236, Algora Publishing
topic: Peace, War, Blessing, Demoralization