Experience hath shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

Experience hath shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.

Letter to John Banister Jr. June 19 1787
- Thomas Jefferson

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I am satisfied and sufficiently occupied with the things which are without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be but of which I have no evidence.
- Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson