Magna Carta Quotes

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

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.

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.

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

No sheriff, royal official, or other person shall take horses or carts for transport from any free man, without his consent.

The oil companies don’t own the resources…. We own the resources.

We have extracted from the land from the moment we stood on two feet. We are working to supply the kinds of materials that are necessary for the lives we've built for ourselves.

Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

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

Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

No sheriff or bailiff of ours, or any other, shall take horses or carts of any Freeman for transportation, unless with the consent of that freeman.

I have very large ideas about the mineral wealth of the nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible.

Private property ought to be subservient to public uses, when necessity requires it; nevertheless, whenever any particular man's property is taken for the use of the public, the owner ought to receive an equivalent in money

Human use of one resource runs squarely against human use of another resource.

No nation has ever aggressively and intensely exploited national resources over such a great area as has the United States.

A due regard for individual property rights does not preclude assigning the state its share in national resources.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.