The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. – William Jennings Bryan

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

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

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy