Definition of Protect

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Definition of Protect
	Protect To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. Related Definitions: As, Children, Cover, Danger, Defend, Father, From, Guard, His, In, Injury, Or, Preserve, Safety, Shield, To

Protect Quotations

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald Reagan

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.
Edward Kennedy

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu

Protect Translations

protect in Danish is beskytte
protect in Dutch is behoeden, beschermen
protect in Finnish is suojella, suojata
protect in Italian is riparare, proteggere, proteggere
protect in Latin is contego, tego texi tectum, vindico, defendo, servo
protect in Portuguese is proteja, proteger
protect in Spanish is amparar, patrocinar

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