...people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are 5. 93. the most vigorous, the most independent, the most...would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else. But our citizens will find employment in this line till their numbers, and of course...

...the soil made the best citizens — the most vigorous, the most virtuous, and the most independent. " They are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds." He believed in an agricultural republic as the safest repository of liberty. He was a firm friend of...

.../~\NE hundred and twenty-four years ago ^-* Thomas Jefferson, writing to John Jay from Paris, said : " Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens....liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds." And thirtyone years later, in a letter to Crawford, he declared that " the agricultural capacities...

...declared them to be the most vigorous, the most virtuous, and the most independent, since " they were tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds." He declared to John Jay that " artif1cers were panderers of vice and the instruments by which the liberties...

...earth are the most valu-^ I able citizens. '' They are the most vigorous, the mosTlh- I dependent, the most virtuous, and they are tied "to their country, and wedded to "its liberty and Jnterestsa by_. the 1 Washington, to a certain extent, shared Jefferson's view. He wrote to the latter...

...farms are the best type of agricultural workers. Like Jefferson's " cultivators of the earth," they " are the most valuable citizens. They are the most...liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds." IV There are various ways of attacking the tenancy problem in a democracy. According to one time-honored...

...farms are the best type of agricultural workers. Like Jefferson's - " cultivators of the earth," they " are the most valuable citizens. They are the most...liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds." IV i^ There are various ways of attacking the tenancy problem in a democracy. According to one time-honored...

...farms are the best type of agricultural workers. Like Jefferson's "cultivators of the earth ", they "are the most valuable citizens. They are the most...wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds".80 There are various ways of attacking the tenancy problem in a democracy. One of the simplest...

...they are the best citizens. They are the most vigorous, the toast virtuous', and the best citizens. They are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds." Among his many letters on file is one he wrote at the request of a friend who had named an infant son...

...generally overturned." The cultivators of the soil, on the other hand, he wrote to John Jay in 1785, "are the most valuable citizens: they are the most...liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds." Hence Jefferson's opposition to the mercantile and industrial interests which were encouraged by Hamilton's...