Cato the Elder
Politician, Orator
"Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work."
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Farming
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."
Jerry Brown
Politician
"Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"As you have sown so shall you reap."
Pliny the Elder
Naturalist, Author
"On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye."
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"Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor."
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"Sowing is not as difficult as reaping."
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"I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about."
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"Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it."
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"Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure."
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"A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income"
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