#Farmers Quotes

“Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.”

“When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.”

“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 farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.”

“Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.”

“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.”

“This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.”

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

“The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.”

“The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.”

“Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.”

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

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

“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.”

“Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.”

“Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.”

“I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.”

“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, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.”

“The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.”

“Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”

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

“The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.”

“There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.”

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