Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property-by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort.

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

As far as the country is concerned, we have tremendous potential, but we're not using it.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.

There is not really any point in having a big squad if you don't use it.

What I said when Otter Creek came up is that we in Montana have a history of giving away our resources. We need to make sure Montana is getting its share.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

The state knows best how to protect resources.

The federal government needs to do a much better job of managing our resources, but the sale or transfer of our land is an extreme proposal, and I won't tolerate it.

The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.

Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development.

It's one thing to get the money apportioned in the budget; the other is to utilise it completely.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

We often wait for the resources before we make a move.

I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism.

Markets are the best way to allocate resources.