There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. — Henri Alain Liogier Copy Share Image
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
