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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.