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

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
Robert Hewison

It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
Walter Lang

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

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.
Sue Kelly

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

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
Elihu Root

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

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

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

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

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
William Robertson Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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