Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

With the gun you can make the earth red but if you have a plough you can make the earth green.

I hope, some day or another, we shall become a storehouse and granary for the world.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Your young military men, who want to reap the harvest of laurels, don't care (I suppose) how many seeds of war are sown; but for the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished, that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce, would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; that the swords might be turned into plough-shares, the spears into pruning hooks, and, as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more."