Abraham Lincoln on community food security

Excerpt from Mr Lincoln's address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural
Society.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1859

"...And thorough work, again, renders sufficient, the smallest quantity of
ground to each man. And this again, conforms to what must occur in a world
less inclined to wars, and more devoted to the arts of peace, than
heretofore. Population must increase rapidly -- more rapidly than in former
times -- and ere long the most valuable of all arts, will be the art of
deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No
community whose every member possesses this art, can ever be the victim of
oppression of any of its forms. Such community will be alike independent of
crowned-kings, money-kings, and land-kings...."

Source: Full text at USDA's National Agricultural Library, Special Collections