Public Lands Quotes:

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

- Taylor Caldwell

topic: Freedom, Work, Rome, Subsistence, National Debt

[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Breathing Space, Land, Nations, Public Lands

The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Responsibility, Land, Government, Jurisdiction, Public Lands

The meter is ticking [particularly in the face of climate change], so you've got to get to as much as you can as fast as you can. I grew up with 'This Land Is Our Land,' and public land doesn't belong to that administration or this one. We want our kids to grow up with real natural places, not just photos of them.

- Robert Redford

topic: Growing Up, Real, Kids, Public Lands

Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

- John Garamendi

topic: Land, Yellowstone, House, Yosemite, Public Lands

The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.

- T. H. Watkins

topic: Land, Water, Treasure, Woodland, Public Lands

My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.

- Sally Jewell

topic: Home, Land, People, Public Lands

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

- James Monroe

topic: Land, Advantage, Public Lands

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources

- Barbara Boxer

topic: Land, Long, Needs, Public Lands

Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature's dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction.

- Zoe Helene

topic: Loyalty, Mother, Running, Indigenous Culture, Ranching

You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land. You'll essentially have to introduce neo-feudalism. You'll have to roll the clock of history back a thousand years, and reduce the European population to debt slavery. It's as simple a solution as the Eurozone has imposed on Greece. And it's a solution that the leaders and the banks are urging for responsible economists to promote for the population at large.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Simple, Government, Years, Feudalism, Public Domain

Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the prosperity of our country is largely dependent on the free operation of corporations. But some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits.

- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

topic: Running, Country, Government, Campaign Finance, Public Lands

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

topic: Land, Four, Herds, Mowers, Public Lands

How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment.

- James Madison

source: James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.154

topic: Land, Hurtful, Atheism, Public Lands

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

- Denis Kearney

topic: Race, Land, People, Public Lands

To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself

- James Madison

topic: Government, Land, House, Containing, Public Lands

It is public land and we will do our best to provide recreational activities. We are looking at initially allowing kayak access, wade fishing, bicycle access and walking access on some of the interior roads.

- John Wallace

topic: Fishing, Land, Wade, Public Lands, Recreational Activities

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

- Jeff Goodell

topic: Land, America, Energy, Drills, Public Lands

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.

- Richard M. Nixon

source: Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.99, Best Books on

topic: Land, Conservative, Should, Public Lands

This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporations…This may be out in the desert today, but tomorrow it could be in your backyard…Already over a dozen projects are proposed in San Diego and Imperial County.

- Robert Scheid

topic: Land, Giving, Desert, Public Lands

In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

- Ralph Regula

topic: Years, Land, Parks, Public Lands

I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies, - opposed to a protective tariff, - opposed to a latitudinal construction of the constitution, - opposed to slavery agitation and disunion. This is my democracy. Point to a single act of my public career not in keeping with these principles.

- Sam Houston

topic: Government, Hands, Land, Public Lands