I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.
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Attributed by Jim Marrs in the William Lewis film One Nation Under Siege (2008); no published occurrence of this has been located prior to The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy : How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America (2010) by Jim Marrs. A similar phrase appears in an 1849 editorial by William Cooke Taylor.