Quotes About Resources

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

The next World War will be over water

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

times of trouble, libraries are sanctuaries. They become town squares and community centers—even blood-draw locations.

librarians are in the library all day, and their jobs include handling difficult and sometimes violent people nearly every day. The topic is bigger than libraries; it is a topic for society to solve.

The public can come and go, but librarians are in the library all day, and their jobs include handling difficult and sometimes violent people nearly every day. The topic is bigger than libraries; it is a topic for society to solve. All libraries can do is try their best to manage it.

People wanted so much from the library. They wanted it to solve things for them. They wanted the library to fix them and teach them how to fix their lives.

Every problem that society has, the library has, too, because the boundary between society and the library is porous; nothing good is kept out of the library, and nothing bad... The public can come and go, but librarians are in the library all day, and their jobs include handling difficult and sometimes violent people nearly every day.

The library is a magnificent institution which nothing can hinder . . . except peanut politics

Public libraries in the United States outnumber McDonald's; they outnumber retail bookstores two to one.

Civilization began in the Fertile Crescent, not because it was an Edenic place overflowing with natural resources, but because it was so hostile to settlement that a village of any size needed careful management to survive.

we tributes trained to gather fish and lumber and coal? What do we know about harnessing power from the sky?

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If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.