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"They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know."
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"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
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"We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years."
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"We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again."
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"I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce."
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"Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now."
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"Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us."
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"Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people."
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"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."
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"Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one."
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"I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT."
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"Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views."
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"It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry."
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"The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil."
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"You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays."
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"There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others."
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"We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any."
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"Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord."
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"The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea."
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"Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions."
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"They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know."
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