Agriculture Quotes

• The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Civilization, Literature

  "Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition".

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• Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Silly, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.252

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• If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

  Wendell Berry

  Involved, Ifs

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• Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

  Norman Borlaug

  Waiting

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• Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Healthy, Occupation

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• The farmers are the founders of civilization.

  Daniel Webster

  Civilization, Founders, Farmers

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• Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, War, Science

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

  David R. Brower

  Diversity, Firsts, Made

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• Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Independent, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.62, Rowman & Littlefield

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• America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

  James Madison

  Art, America, Liberty

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• Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

  Joseph Joubert

  Kind, Excellent, Good Sense

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

  Cato the Elder

  Farming, Late, Farmers

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• There are no miracles in agricultural production.

  Norman Borlaug

  Miracle, Productions

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

  Hermann Goring

  War, Communist Leaders, People

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• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  Sam Donaldson

  Boys, Typical, Looks

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• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Running, Pigs

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• I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Uncles, Dad, Bigs

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• The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

  Jim Bunning

  Kentucky, Who We Are, Foundation

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• I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

  Bernard Hinault

  Directors, France, Maintaining

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• I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

  James Earl Jones

  Kids, Thinking, Balance

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

  Skeet Ulrich

  North Carolina, Towns, Farming

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• Eating is an agricultural act.

  Wendell Berry

  Environment, Eating

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.282, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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 is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, War, Three

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• Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

  Jacques Diouf

  Heritage, Common, Dialogue

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• Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Together, Usual

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1871). “The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.371

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