Preservation Quotes

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Whole, Sure

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Liberty, Around

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Cesar Chavez

Disrespect, Culture, Contempt

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire

Pleasure, Necessary, Mankind

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose Bierce

Jealous, Lost, Worth

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Done, Thought, Books

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke

Government, End, Property

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke

Men, Society, Why

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Freedom, Justice, Fact

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes

Life, Nature, Power

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston

Education, Government, Knowledge

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Daniel Webster

Education, Free, Rest

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Dian Fossey

Life, Future, Past

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer

Health, Few, Seem

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
Berenice Abbott

Image, Camera, Instrument

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
Tim Cahill

Fine, Mystery, Gold

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.
Lewis Thomas

Nature, Good, Until

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
Kenichi Fukui

Future, Wisdom, May

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Self, General, Race

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Charles de Secondat

War, Victory, Object

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
Martin Van Buren

Peace, Country, Honor

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
Clara Zetkin

Life, Women, Men

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
Agnes Macphail

Women, Home, Means

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
Agnes Macphail

Men, Home, Future

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
Robert Byrd

Away, Walk, Congress

Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.
David Limbaugh

Him, Liberty, American

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
Caleb Cushing

Government, Acceptance, Plan

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