My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty . . . it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one hundred years.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition.

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

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.