Agriculture Quotes - Page 5

• The farmers are the founders of civilization.

  Daniel Webster

  Civilization, Founders, Farmers

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• Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

  Horace

  Father, Oxen, Anxiety

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• We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

  Jim Ryun

  Strong, Kansas, Heritage

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• So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

  Steven Chu

  Degrees, World, Today

  "Earth Day 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.

  Will Rogers

  Ideas, Long, Relief

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.

  Will Rogers

  Being Thankful, Boards, Lasts

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Want, Eccentric

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• I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Horse, Feel Better

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• For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.

  George Washington

  War, Humanity, Employment

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.

  Will Rogers

  Moving, Years, Wish

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

  Will Rogers

  Essentials, Figures, Farmers

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.

  Will Rogers

  Years, Lasts, Lost

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

  Will Rogers

  Spring, Goes On, Soil

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• George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

  Will Rogers

  Engineering, Indulge In, Luxury

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• Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

  Will Rogers

  Relief, Bills, Congress

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• This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.

  Will Rogers

  Encouragement, Might, Lasts

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Dollars, Helping

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• I cite a good example, say, of agriculture, .. In agriculture we need to move with speed to bring to full utilization the land that is now in our possession. We need to curb aspects of corruption that are endemic in the economy. We need to be transparent in everything that we do. We need to be consistent in implementing the policies we would have agreed. And not implement policies one day and reverse them the other day.

  Gideon Gono

  Moving, Land, One Day

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• He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Names, Looks

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• The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Teaching, Science

  Nature Discipline (p. 38)

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• What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

  Will Rogers

  Trying, Birth Control, Corn

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• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Commodity Prices

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• He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

  John Arbuthnot

  Hungry, Harvest, Grain

  John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

  Will Rogers

  Sky, Relief, West

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

  Allan Savory

  Food, Army, Land

  "Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making". Book by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, 1999.

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