I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour.
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.