“What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled store of gold, not its giant factories, not its surpassing railroads, not its unprecedented volume of cheap power. Is not its most priceless asset the character of its people, their indomitable self-confidence, their transcendent vision, their sleepless initiative and, perhaps above all, their inherent, irrepressible optimism?” PeopleSelfCharacterAmericaNaturalWealthVisionResourcesGoldOptimismStoresSelf ConfidenceGiantsAssetsFactoriesInitiativeInherentVolumeLimitlessPricelessUnprecedentedNatural ResourcesTranscendentRailroadsSurpassingIndomitableIrrepressible Author:B. C. Forbes
“Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States.” MadeStillsCountryStatesNaturalUnitedUnited StatesResourcesEuropeGoldSilverNatural ResourcesMineralsTinForeign CountriesBolivia Author:Evo Morales
“Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?” IfsBelievePaySunTaxesLateResourcesGoldHotMilesWayneSwansHot SunPaddyPerth Author:Clive Palmer
“When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka, as well as Eastern Siberia. All this area contains tremendous resources, including oil and gas, 90 percent of Russian tin, 30 percent of Russian gold, 35 percent of forest, 70 percent of Russia's fish is harvested in the local waters.” WellsMeanWaterPercentResourcesAreasGoldIncludingFishesOilEastRussiaLocalsForestsGasTerritoryEasternTinOil And GasSiberia Author:Vladimir Putin
“Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it.” WorldMadeHumanityEnvironmentEssentialsResourcesGoldOilDisappearPsychologicalWildernessWellbeing Author:Bob Brown
“Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper.” LongRealValuesSeaModernProducePaperResourcesGoldRationalInkPrintingCrudeUnstablePaper MoneyReal Gold Author:William E. Rees
“Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.” WarHandsValuesDiesPerfectLevelsResourcesGoldUniversalMediumsPreservesSilverCoinsRelianceGold And Silver Book:The Life and Writings of ... Source: The Life and Writings of ...