It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people."
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
"I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met."
"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."