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Agriculture
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
The farmer has to be an optimist, or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures and commerce.
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
The soil is the great connector of lives.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Agriculture is the backbone of the economy.
The first farmer was the first man.
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens.
The land is where our roots are.
Farming is a profession of hope.
The Earth is what we all have in common.
Agriculture is a fundamental human activity.
By cultivating the soil, we cultivate ourselves.
Agriculture is the first source of prosperity.
The land is the basis of all wealth.
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man’s inventions.
Agriculture is the chief source of national prosperity.
He who plants a tree plants a hope.