Permanent Resources

Famous quotes containing the words permanent and/or resources:

“There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)