Preservation Quotes

345 quotes by 279 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to. — William Shakespeare
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man… — Malcolm X
Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration. — G. D. H. Cole
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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