Preservation Quotes

345 Preservation quotes by 279 unique authors

The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all.… — James A. Garfield
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. — Dian Fossey
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at… — Kenichi Fukui
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on… — Ann Coulter
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. — Diogenes
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. — Benjamin Disraeli
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own… — Thomas Hobbes
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. — Sam Houston
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit… — Abraham Lincoln
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. — John Locke
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. — John Locke
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. — Jose Marti
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and… — Haile Selassie
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. — Herbert Spencer
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since… — Lewis Thomas
In wildness is the preservation of the world. — Henry David Thoreau
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us,… — Voltaire
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. — Evelyn Waugh
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. — Daniel Webster
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation. — Felix Dennis

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