Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
815
AUTHOR:
Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
QUOTATION:
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
ATTRIBUTION:
SIR FRANCIS BACON. This sentence was inscribed on one side of the Golden Door of the Transportation Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
