“No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.”

- H. L. Mencken

“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

“Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.”

- Henry David Thoreau