The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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DISARMAMENT / NAVAL

I have read with great satisfaction your observations on the principles for equalizing the power of the different nations on the sea, and think them perfectly sound. Certainly it will be better to produce a balance on that element, by reducing the means of its great monopolizer, than by endeavoring to raise our own to an equality with theirs.

to Tench Coxe, 21 September 1807