The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
James MadisonAbout author
- Author's profession: President
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 16, 1751
- Died: June 28, 1836
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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunge? they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poo? They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
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A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.
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