Business Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.

— Harry S. Truman

“Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is:…

— Wendell Berry

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

— Henry David Thoreau

Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

— M. S. Swaminathan

“The predominant system of farming bolstered by all of this is accurately named industrial agriculture. It is capital-intensive, not labor-intensive, which largely explains the…

— Richard Manning

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more…

— Wendell Berry

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national…

— Oliver Ellsworth

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

— Michael Pollan

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

— David F. Houston

“In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana