American people Quote by John Gould

One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the…

— Chrystia Freeland

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology…

— Richard Hofstadter

Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.

— Michael Specter

“Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart…”

— Orson Scott Card

“In April, Bradford had decided that each household should be assigned its own plot to cultivate, with the understanding that each family kept whatever…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

— Jeff Sessions

So there's that change of general consciousness, and then there's this boom after the war, this expansion into the West. It was like the…

— Christine Jennings

Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production.…

— Peter Buffett

Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation,…

— Jose Andres

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and…

— Harry S. Truman

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman