“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.” FeelsLooksCountryGoneHavensHorseFarmersSaneFeel BetterAgricultureTractors Author:Will Rogers
“Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.” HelpingShowsHorseRaisesFarmersRacingGreat WorkPoloRanchersFarmers And RanchersHorse Show Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933 Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.” HorseRaisesFarmersGasoline Author:Will Rogers
“No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.” WisdomPoliticsGivenBornEconomyHorseUnionsLiberalismCollectivesCommunistFarmersSovietSoviet UnionBarns Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.” ShouldTwoUseWisdomCareTodayFacesPoliticsForgetResponsibilityPrinciplesCasesEconomyAspectHorsePropertyPossessionTwo ThingsLiberalismDividedFarmersRighteousInseparablePrivate Property Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.” HardThreeHorseTablesCustomsFarmersConventionalPieThree TimesHousework Author:Ellen Swallow Richards
“We do have situations where people are being advised not to use their well water. That's a huge problem because you know they're farmers and they rely on that water for their cattle and their horses and their crops.” PeopleKnowsWellsUseProblemWaterSituationHugeHorseRelyFarmersCropsCattle Author:Erin Brockovich
“A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.” WorldDoeWantedBehindsBreakMastersHorseAdmireNecksFarmersBreaking DownLameCurbArchesPawsShowy Book:Hunting Sketches: Trollope's Works Source: Hunting Sketches: Trollope's Works
“I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."” MenCountryStoriesPoliticalConnectionsHorseElectionGentlemanStreamsCivil WarCompanionFarmersCrossingsDutchElection DayI Am The Best Author:Abraham Lincoln
“If we were to go back in time 100 years and ask a farmer what he'd like if he could have anything, he'd probably say he wanted a horse that was twice as strong and ate half as many oats. He would not say he wanted a tractor. The point is, technology changes things so fast that many people aren't sure what the best solutions to their problems might be.” PeopleIfsYearsProblemMightWantedAsksStrongChangeHalfTechnologySolutionsHorseFarmersBack In TimeTractorsGo Back In TimeOats Author:Philip Quigley
“Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.” PeopleDiesFatherExistenceStupidReadyMastersMassHorsePrejudiceCeaseFarmersGrandfatherClingingReady To DieFathers And Grandfathers Author:Friedrich Engels