Preservation Quotes
345 quotes by 279 authors
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Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted,…
— John Peter Altgeld
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they…
— Jefferson Davis
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We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential…
— James Madison
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Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
— William Shakespeare
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man…
— Malcolm X
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Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
— G. D. H. Cole
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In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition,…
— Earnest Hooton
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In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular…
— Unknown Author
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For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a…
— Raymond Dart
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The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for…
— Don Kates
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There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have…
— Demosthenes
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We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as…
— Harrison Schmitt
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I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we…
— Robert E. Lee
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Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and…
— Thomas Paine
Who Wrote These Preservation Quotes
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