Body Quote by Andrew Jackson

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I…

— John C. Calhoun

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

— Eugene V. Debs

“when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the…

— Jon Meacham

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must…

— Oscar Wilde

Whoever supports the farmer is the guy for America.

— Willie Nelson

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of…

— John L. Lewis

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

— Thomas Jefferson

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The one essential class of workers, as an editorial writer in a New York Daily recently remarked, are the farmers.”

— Joseph Casper Husslein

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn…

— John Locke

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and…

— Henry David Thoreau