Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, theref… - Daniel Webster

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.