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  • Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

    "The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson" by Daniel J. Boorstin, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 4, (p. 178), 1993.
  • Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

    Daniel J. Boorstin (1993). “The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson”, p.178, University of Chicago Press
  • Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.

    Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.29, Vintage
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