Guard Against Quotes
93 quotes by 79 authors
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
— Abu Bakr
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into…
— William James
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which…
— Martin Luther
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However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
— Eric Hoffer
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
— James Anthony Froude
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The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out…
— Thomas Jefferson
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And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and…
— M R DeHaan
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It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race,…
— Martin Luther
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Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and…
— Richard Burr
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The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control…
— S. T. Joshi
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Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining…
— Epicurus
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If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed,
— Thomas Jefferson
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Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an…
— James Madison
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The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless,…
— Richard Henry Lee
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[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a…
— James Madison
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
— Thomas Jefferson
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C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.
— Damian Conway
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The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.
— Sheldon Glueck
Who Wrote These Guard Against Quotes
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