WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:00:11 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg line in the sand – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Jefferson, Thomas -- Letter (1807-07-16) to Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staël-Holstein https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/29018/ https://wist.info/jefferson-thomas/29018/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:57:56 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=29018 We have borne patiently a great deal of wrong, on the consideration that if nations go to war for every degree of injury, there would never be peace on earth. But when patience has begotten false estimates of it’s motives, when wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.


Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Letter (1807-07-16) to Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staël-Holstein
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