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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

“Food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources. Indeed, the process of consumption and waste seems to overlook any concern for ... biodiversity, which is so important for agriculture.”

“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”

“That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.”

Needs Should May Seems Land Should Have Absurd Soil Agriculture Nevertheless Petroleum

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development. It's an acute symptom that is added to other more grave and already well-known ones, such as the continued imbalance between wealth and poverty, the scandal of hunger, the ecological emergency and the problem of unemployment, which has now become general. In this context a strategic re-launching of agriculture appears decisive.”

“The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.”

Ifs Use Land Resources Determination Damage Soil Agriculture Coal

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.”

Done Disease Mad Cows Agriculture Mad Cow Disease

Author:Jacques Chirac

“Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.”

“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”

Important Cities Tree Land Industry Roots Branches Farmers Decline Agriculture

Author:Bernard Baruch

“If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.”

Ifs Firsts Moving Energy Class Growing Land Food Productions Agriculture Competing First Class Biofuels Energy Production

Author:Bill Gates

“In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.”

Ifs Use Would Be Values Can Do Land Property California Southern Agriculture Coast Southern California

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.”

Communication Activity Ministry Agriculture Turkeys Culling

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.”

Problem Government Involved Expenses Agriculture

Author:Ron Paul

“The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.”

Animal Mercy Investigation Agriculture Undercover Animal Agriculture

Author:Nathan Runkle

“Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.”

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“The Department of Agriculture announced that it will ban six new strains of E. coli. Which explains why the hot dog vendor outside my building is now just selling napkins.”

Dog Building Six Hot Selling Department Agriculture Strain Bans Hot Dog Napkins Vendors

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.”

Littles Soul Water Flower Needed Spring Streams Dry Substitutes Attributes Steady Thick Flash Flood Agriculture Crops Nurturing Irrigation Flash Floods

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.”

Taken Fields Creatures Concern Individuality Farms Agriculture Formidable

Book:The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

“I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.”

People Mind Mean Would Be Cities Politician One Day Bounds Italian Grain Agriculture Reliance Discouraged Revive Good Mind

Author:Augustus

“It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.”

Done Opportunity Lost Late Thirds Seasons Too Late Agriculture Maxims

Book:The Natural History of Pliny

Source: The Natural History of Pliny

“Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.”

“For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.”

War Might Humanity Nations Waste Benefits Sake Rage Scripture Employment Commerce Agriculture Hook Conquest Manly Spears Pruning

Book:Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious

“I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.”

Thinking Should Bigs Differences Land Benefits Program Profit Enormous Farms Farmers Agriculture Distressing Consolidation Family Farms

Author:Barack Obama

“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand.”

Needs Hands Technology Military Policy Position Return Gains Program Strings Massive Communist Aggressive Capitalist Foreign Policy Agriculture Upper Hand

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.”

Country Huge Economics Foundation Our Country Plus Agriculture Minus Brezhnev

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.”

Modern Building Materials Industry Spread Oil Agriculture Civilisation Rubber Processing Mining Refining Fertilizer Textiles

Book:Science in history

Source: Science in history

“All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Wish Views Deals Plans Design Objects Destruction Plant Seeds Pursuit Tyrants Agriculture Grammar Private Life Infamous Ruffian

Author:William Cobbett

“Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.”

Should Used Causes Paid Institutions Trade Corporations Labour Endeavor Agriculture Apprenticeship

Book:Population: The First Essay

Source: Population: The First Essay

“Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?”

“You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.”

People Ifs Stills Environment Protect Majority Forests Instance Primitive Reserves Agriculture Encroachment Protect The Environment

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.”

Individual Nations Understanding Common Woods Ministers Enlightened Pens Prime Commerce Agriculture Prime Minister Mechanic Clay Breeding Cattle Mining E Commerce

Book:History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

Source: History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

“There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.”

Knows World Way Stills Situation Example Food Products Taste Right Now Eating Fruit Incredibles Fishes Agriculture Flavor Texture Ecological Amazon Experimentation Seafood Eating Right

Author:Ferran Adria

“The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.”

“To be economical agriculture must be ecological.”

Agriculture Ecological

Author:Charles Walters

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