I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until… — John A. Logan Copy Share Image
I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse;… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation. — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I would advise you to get all of your blessings written and preserve them...I do feel to enjoin it upon you to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Lessons learned today, I am my greatest champion. Nobody will respect me unless I stand up for myself. Sounds so simple, yet… — Virginia Toole Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent you in the United States House of Representatives. Together, we will continue fighting… — Mike Conaway Copy Share Image
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
