Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts.
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.