Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Ho Chi Minh

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Herodotus

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
David Brainerd

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
Thomas S. Monson

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
James Monroe

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
Thomas More

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
Jesse Brown

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
Conrad Burns

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
Christopher Dodd

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
King Abdullah II

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.
Anwar Sadat

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.
Rick Perry

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
Bill Frist

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
Ernestine L. Rose

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.
David Sylvian

Sometimes you know you find precious things in the creative process that you couldn't find out of it.
Arthur Berger

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mahatma Gandhi