"A community of small farmers... land property..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.
More by Thomas Jefferson
“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.”
“No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.”
“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself”
More on Agriculture
“We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.”
“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
“To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition”
More on Freedom
“Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?”
“What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.”
“Security without liberty is called prison.”