- “The first and most respectable of all arts is agriculture.”-Roseau.
- “Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor to man.”-Daniel Webster.
- “Of all occupations from which gain is secured, there is none better than agriculture, nothing more productive, nothing sweeter, nothing more worthy of a free man.”-Cicero.
- “Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food.”-Spencer.
- “Tis sweet to spend one’s time in the cultivation of the field.”-Ovid.
- “Farmers and their families make up about 30 percent of our population. They exceed in number any other group engaged in one general industry.”-Henry G. Wallace.
- The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens that least given of all to evil designs.”-Cato.
- “The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”-Emerson.
- “Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”-George Eliot.
- “The plow is to pray-to plant is to prophesy, and the harvest answers and fulfills.”-R. G. Ingersoll.
–courtesy of Tom Giessel
