The locomotive engineer... the farmer who is out pitting himself against the weather and against the... bugs and everything else all the time - to me they're much more real than the guy who makes the money and sits in the office... I find myself more sympathetic to them. I always have.... I suppose it's also because I can't imagine anything duller than sitting in an office all day long.
as quoted in Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough. Simon and Schuster, 1992. p. 185
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