“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. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President. Source: National Gazette, 3 March 1792.
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