Beats Quote by Ruth Stout

Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to…

— Ruth Stout

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

— H. L. Mencken

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

— John F. Kennedy

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the…

— Ellen Glasgow

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which…

— Benjamin Franklin

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not,…

— Fawn M. Brodie

Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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