I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

If this nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and what will never be.

The people are as capable of achieving their industrial freedom as they were to secure their political liberty, and both are necessary to a free nation.

Tomorrow, the entire ANC leadership and I will be back at our desks. We are rolling up our sleeves to begin tackling the problems our country faces. We ask you…

While early American society was an agrarian society, it was fast becoming more commercial, and commercial goals made their way among its agricultural classes …