Guard Quotes

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

Patriotism, Against, Pretended

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Happiness, Nature

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Power, Government, Against

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

Nothing, Jealous, Give

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine

Enemy, Liberty, Himself

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand

Yourself, Kindness, Give

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fool, Care, Jealous

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Against, Whether, Influence

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Against, Among, Prince

Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.
Robin Hayes

Forget, Nation, Against

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster

Love, God, Liberty

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats

Love, Hate, Fight

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Best, Character, Off

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats

Love, Hate, Fight

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke

Support, Fortitude, Virtues

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison

Virtue, Modesty, Ornament

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
Arthur Herzog

Fake, Emptiness, Stand

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Equality, Justice, Democracy

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
George Whitefield

Great, Heart, Important

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond

Peace, Silence, Words

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Men, Future, Past

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Louis D. Brandeis

Government, Experience, Liberty

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
Andrew Jackson

Happen, Regret, Around

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.
Jennifer Aniston

Family, Friends, Become

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
Billy Corgan

Success, Rock, Live

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
William Wilberforce

God, Place, Prayer

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.
LeBron James

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
Larry David

Today, Though, Army

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
Publilius Syrus

Danger, Safety, Exposed

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