Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the US, a founding father, main author of the Declaration of Independence, horticulturist, statesman, architect, archaeologist, inventor, and founder of the University of Virginia.  Here are some of his thoughts on friends and enemies:

• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it
• Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none
• As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also
• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine
• An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes
• 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?

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