All THOMAS JEFFERSON Quotes about “Abolition”

“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.”
“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.”

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