Agriculture Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Years, Land

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• The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

  Jacques Chirac

  Mad Cow Disease, Done, Cows

  "Chirac jokes about British food". news.bbc.co.uk. July 4, 2005.

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• In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

  Bill Vaughan

  Land, California, Southern

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• Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Calling, Earth

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• It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.

  Will Rogers

  Trying, Looks, Debt

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.

  Will Rogers

  Political, Relief, Would Be

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

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• But let the good old corn adorn
  The hills our fathers trod;
  Still let us, for his golden corn,
  Send up our thanks to God!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Father, Golden, Corn

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.117

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• 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

  Country, Spring, Cities

  Democratic National Convention Address, originally delivered 8 July 1896 and later recorded in studio

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Race, Vegetables

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Quality, Succeed

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• Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Blessed, Doe, Too Much

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Just Live, Farmers

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

  Chief Seattle

  Land, Earth, Share

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• Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

  Will Rogers

  Plowing, More Time, Conventions

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

  Will Rogers

  Trying, Rotation, Crops

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• Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.

  Dan Quayle

  Meaningful, Years, Levels

  "Republican rivals focus on farm crisis" by David Yepsen, www.cnn.com. August 12, 1999.

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• Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

  Will Rogers

  Relief, Given, Farmers

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

  Jim Costa

  Water, Essentials, Advancement

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• High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

  Alan Autry

  Technology, Our World, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Cheating, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60

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• Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

  Gary Miller

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Party, Men

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.30

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• Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

  Jerry Weller

  Illinois, Important, Reform

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• These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

  Will Rogers

  Dust, Storm, Looks

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