"I view great cities as pestilential to..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.
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“Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.”
“It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.”
“When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.”
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“New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.”
“It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.”
“I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps”
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“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”
“Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.”
“I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.”