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I believe in...
The future of Agriculture
I believe that to...
Live and work on a good farm, or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits.
I believe in...
Leadership from ourselves and respect from others.
I believe in less...
Dependence on begging and more power in bargaining.
I believe that...
American agriculture can and will hold true.
A faith born not of...
Words but of deeds.
Is pleasant...
As well as challenging.
I believe in my...
own ability to work efficiently and think clearly.
In the life...
Abundant
To the best...
Traditions of our national life.
Achievements won by...
Present and past Agriculturalists.
For I know the...
Joys and discomforts of agricultural life.
With such...
Knowledge and skill as I can secure.
And enough honest wealth...
To help make it so--for others as well as myself.
And that I can...
Exert an influence in my home and community.
In the promise of better...
Days through better ways.
And hold an...
Inborn fondness for those associations.
And in the ability of...
Progressive agriculturalists to serve our own and the public interest.
In less need for...
Charity and more of it when needed.
Which will stand...
Solid for my part in that inspiring task.
Even as the the better things we now enjoy...
Have come to us from the struggle of former years.
Which even in hours of...
Discouragement, I cannot deny.
In producing and marketing...
The product of our toil.
In being happy myself and...
Playing square with others whose happiness depends on me.
BONUS- The writer of the FFA Creed.
Who is E.M.Tiffany?