Quote of the Day

For many years in the early history of our country, there was a pronounced attitude amongst our leaders in favor of the Agrarian ideal, that the yeoman farmer was the stalwart of liberty and democracy. Here's the way Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) made the case, even before independence in 1769:

"There seems to be but three ways for a nation to
acquire wealth: the first is by war, as the Romans did,
in plundering their conquered neighbors-- this is
robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally
cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest
way, wherein men received a real increase of the seed
thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle,
wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for
his innocent life and his virtuous industry."