Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life… — Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.