Salt of the earth

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You've gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know—morons.

Gene Wilder

Blazing Saddles

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Blazing Saddles. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, 1974.

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State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Peter Carr. 10 Aug. 1787.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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