"Farmers have about given up hope of..." - Quote by Will Rogers
Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.
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“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.”
“Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.”
“You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.”
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“The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.”
“The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.”
“Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.”
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“Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.”
“Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.”
“The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.”