"Cultivators of the earth are the most..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.
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“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
“This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.”
“Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”
More on Virtue
“True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.”
“For in the fatness of these pursy timesVirtue itself of vice must pardon beg.”
“Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you... Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise ... and that exercise will make them habitual.”