will-rogers Quotes About agriculture

“I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.”

Trying Has Beens Country Reason Humor Bigs Funny Boys Eating Towns Agriculture Country Boy

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.”

Plates Agriculture Steak

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

“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.”

People Knows President Fellows Farms Farmers Agriculture Mortgage

Author:Will Rogers

“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.”

Helping Shows Government Dollars Billions Farmers Agriculture

Author:Will Rogers

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

Clubs Farmers Association Agriculture Pitchforks

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

“Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.”

More Time Farmers Conventions Agriculture Plowing

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

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

Country Farmers Agriculture Just Live

Book:Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

Source: Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

“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.”

Way Needs Has Beens Pay Relief Farmers More Money Agriculture

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

“Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.”

Worry Fit Lows Raises Appetite Agriculture

Author:Will Rogers

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

Knows Way Years Moving Wish Clear Towns Farmers Agriculture

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“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.”

People Thinking Should Years Enough Pay Millions Land Taxes Income Agriculture Pennies Income Tax Sales Tax

Author:Will Rogers

“Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.”

Years May Real Eye Bills Plant Relief Farms Agriculture Hammers Corn Wheat Cotton Southerner Northerners

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

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

Trying Farmers Agriculture Crops Automobile Rotation

Author:Will Rogers

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

Given Decided Relief Farms Farmers Agriculture Given Up

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

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

America Next Week Congress Sense Of Humor Farmers Agriculture You Again Next Week

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

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

Bills Congress Relief Farms Agriculture Veto

Author:Will Rogers

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

Trying Looks Vote Debt Candidates Farmers Agriculture

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

“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.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Lasts Political Theory Bills Versions Relief Farms Professors Farmers Agriculture Harvard

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“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.”

Might Lasts Encouragement Congress Farmers Agriculture Session

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.”

Made Enough Luxury Gentleman Farmers Engineering Engineers Agriculture Indulge Indulge In Civil Engineer Civil Engineering

Author:Will Rogers

“There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.”

World Black Wise Holy Coffee Agriculture Beans Beef Better Days Black Coffee

Book:Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's

Source: Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's

“Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.”

Years Lasts Lost Agriculture

Book:Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's

Source: Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's

“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.”

Figures Essentials Raises Farmers Agriculture

Book:Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's

Source: Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's

“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.”

Feels Looks Country Gone Havens Horse Farmers Sane Feel Better Agriculture Tractors

Author:Will Rogers

“The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.”

Men Want Wells I Can Enough Found He Man Hats Farms Diamond Agriculture Eccentric Silk

Author:Will Rogers

“In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.”

Middle Goes On Spring West Rounds Brands Soil Agriculture

Author:Will Rogers

“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.”

Looks Poor Lifetime Storm Dust Farms Farmers Agriculture Dust Storms

Author:Will Rogers

“It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.”

Sky Middle Beats West Relief Farmers Agriculture

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“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.”

Long Made Said I Can Ideas Helping Fine Holes Satisfied Made It Relief Farms Farmers Agriculture

Book:Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers

Source: Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers

“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.”

Trying Hard Teach Birth Farmers Agriculture Secretary Corn Birth Control Hog

Author:Will Rogers

“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.”

Lasts Interest Week Security Boards Something New Farms Farmers Agriculture Being Thankful Cheaper

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

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

Stills Farmers Agriculture Optimist Farming And Farmers

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

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