"I had rather be on my farm
than be emperor of the world" If you look past George Washington the Statesman you will find George Washington the farmer, a noble man who was humbled by the trials and tribulations of working the land. He tried many things to makeMount Vernon Washington Commonwealth of Virginia
"I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares."
- George Washington
"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness."
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington (1787)
When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town-meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States"
Thoreau's essay "Slavery In Massachusets" from 1854
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."
- Daniel Webster
"There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry."
Franklin, Benjamin ·
“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”
- William Jennings Bryan
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." - Thomas Jefferson
than be emperor of the world" If you look past George Washington the Statesman you will find George Washington the farmer, a noble man who was humbled by the trials and tribulations of working the land. He tried many things to make
"I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares."
- George Washington
"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness."
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington (1787)
When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town-meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States"
Thoreau's essay "Slavery In Massachusets" from 1854
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."
- Daniel Webster
"There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry."
Franklin, Benjamin ·
“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”
- William Jennings Bryan
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." - Thomas Jefferson
