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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom Maringer, post: 183140, member: 7033&quot;]Okay, here&#039;s one that will take a bit of research on the sayings of Thomas Jefferson.&nbsp; The prize is a full roll (40 coins) of 2006 Jefferson Nickels with a custom counterstamp which says &quot;NO MORE LIES&quot; on the obverse side... and a balancing counterstamp on reverse which says &quot;NO MORE WAR&quot; . The roll-paper is custom printed on cotton bond paper in case you want to keep the roll intact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Okay so here&#039;s the challenge. Below is a list of eleven Jeffersonian quotes taken from collections of his speeches and letters. The winner will be the person who first posts the correct original context of EACH of the eleven quotes. If it is from a speech, please provide the place and date of the event, if it is from a letter, please provide the name of the recipient etc. Treat it as a research project on the philosophical foundations of Jeffersonian thought on what America should be. </p><p><br /></p><p>1. &quot;A government of reason is better than one of force&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>2. &quot;God has bestowed reason... as the umpire of truth.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>3. &quot;That liberty is pure which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>4. &quot;In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>5. &quot;Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>6. &quot;Peace is our most important interest, and a recovery from debt&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>7. &quot;Wars and contentions indeed fill the pages of history with more matter. But more blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say. This is what I ambition for my own country.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>8. &quot;I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>9. &quot;No citizen should be free to commit his country to war.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>10. &quot;The criminal attempts of private individuals to decide for their country the question of peace or war, by commencing active and unauthorized hostilities, should be promptly and efficaciously suppressed.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>11. &quot;If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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