"Cultivators of the earth are the most..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.”

“If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”

“Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.”

“We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.”

“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.”

“What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.”

“Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.”

“Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.”

“... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.”