Tom Tryon Quotations

I am strongly in favor of agriculture, ... I view this as a watershed moment in that we can determine the future of ag and, in some ways, development.

They're not only getting the Calaveras County sales tax, we're paying to improve their roads for them,

We're just viewed as a bedroom community to service Tuolumne and Amador counties, and it does hurt,

Maybe they'll go to Lowe's instead of the Home Depot in Stockton, but either way, they're not shopping in Calaveras County,

If local residents could shop locally they would do less driving,

The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.

For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.

The reality is, we can't sustain ourselves with property tax dollars because the state is taking so much money away from counties,