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"All authority belongs to 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."
"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal."
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."
"I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time."