Carolina QuotesThe planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer all know that their success depends upon their own industry and economy, and that they must not expect to become suddenly rich by the fruits of their toil. Yet these classes of society form the great body of the people of the United States; they are the bone and sinew of the country--men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws, and who, moreover, hold the great mass of our national wealth, although it is distributed in moderate amounts among the millions of freemen who possess it.
Andrew Jackson
Carolinian
Source
Farewell Address, Washington, 4 March 1837; Miller Center, University of Virginia
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- speech
- work
- Farewell Address
- year
- 1837
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