There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable. – Fawn M. Brodie

Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up. – Lynwood L. Giacomini

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. – H. L. Mencken