I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
Weitere Zitate von Thomas Jefferson
Zum Autor"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
". . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order."
"All authority belongs to the people."
"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."