Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?Thomas Jefferson
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.Voltaire
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!William Shakespeare