The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.