Land Policy Review, Volumes 7-8

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Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1938
 

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Página 38 - ... the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual. or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain, because the profit could never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.
Página 45 - God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath.
Página 10 - Thought is the property of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts ; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
Página 2 - Mines. (Manuscript published by permission of the Director, Bureau of Mines, US Department of the Interior).
Página 3 - The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Página 26 - The principle of sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, irrespective of size and strength, as partners in a future system of general security will be the foundation stone upon which the future international organization will be constructed.
Página 28 - When we shall be full on this side," he writes, "we may lay off a range of states on the western bank from the head to the mouth, and so range after range, advancing compactly as we multiply.
Página 8 - I measure the sound, solid achievement that can be made at this time by the straight edge of your own confidence and your resolve. And to you, and to all Americans who dedicate themselves with us to the making of an abiding peace, I say: "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Página 14 - ... wastage by erosion, deficiencies of plant food, accumulation of alkali, or improper development ; The United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture RECOMMENDS : 1. That each nation undertake : (a) To survey its land and water resources to determine (1) in what areas, if opened to settlement, production of food could materially be increased; (2) what areas, if supplied with additional production facilities, such as water supply for irrigation, improved drainage, or by the correction of deterrents...

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