Democratic National Peasants

Famous quotes containing the words democratic, national and/or peasants:

    “Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “We are constantly thinking of the great war ... which saved the Union ... but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “But the peasants—how do the peasants die?”
    —Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)