“The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.” IfsChildrenGovernmentFightingLibertySupportRightsGenerationsLandCitizensStandardsResourcesCapacityFunctionOur ChildrenPopulationPursuitContinentsPursuit Of HappinessHereafterLivelihoodDegradeStandards Of LivingThis GenerationLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of HappinessRights To Life Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.” PeopleWantLittlesHas BeensLandEssentialsStandardsLaborProducersConsumersComplexityExpensiveConsiderationConvenienceCheapness Author:Wendell Berry
“America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.” PeopleWorldMindLooksIdeasHardHelpingProblemAmericaBeautifulValuesOpportunityChanceCommonPrinciplesRolesCreativeLandTalentInformationHard WorkReturnHighestStandardsIdealsRewardsHelping OthersDialogueFortunateNew IdeasTransparentDissentCommon GroundHigh StandardsPrincipledLand Of OpportunityTalent And Hard Work Book:America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again Source: America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
“Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.” MenLongHas BeensDoneCharacterBodyLandIntegrityHolyStandardsSorryDamageDecentCrusadesWomen's BodiesHoly Land Author:Jack McDevitt
“As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.” UseGoalLandTypeDevelopmentStandardsNegativeImpactWideVarietyEfficientFlexibilityHousingReducingLand Use Author:Bill Vaughan
“Many state governments have launched innovative steps such as Ladli Laxmi scheme of Madhya Pradesh, PDS reform scheme of Chattisgarh, computerization of land records in Karnataka, free computers to students passing 10th standard exams, pollution control efforts in Himachal, power sector reforms in Rajasthan and Mumbai - Pune Expressway in Maharashta. These excellent innovative schemes are examples of good governance.” StatesGovernmentEffortStepsRecordsLandExampleStudentsComputerStandardsIndiaPassingPassingsReformExcellentPollutionSchemesGovernanceInnovativeExamState GovernmentMumbaiGood GovernancePollution ControlPune Author:Narendra Modi
“Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.” ThinkingUnderstandingLandStandardsMarkTicketsCommodityLicenseStaplesStatutes Book:Prose works Source: Prose works