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Cities Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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,…
- 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 mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human…
- I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there…
- The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have…
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
- A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person,…
- When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
- The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human…
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- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman