Preservation Quotes

345 Preservation quotes by 279 unique authors

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have… — Kenneth E. Boulding
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been… — Calvin Coolidge
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution… — James Madison
He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who… — Walter Raleigh
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against… — Alexander Hamilton
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the… — David Miliband
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom. — Ludwig von Mises
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let… — Werner Herzog
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part… — Audie Murphy
There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful. — Mariska Hargitay
The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. — Stanley Druckenmiller
The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to… — Stanley Druckenmiller
The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial… — Dan Inosanto
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea, — Wallace Stegner
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the… — Nadine Gordimer
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over… — Ursula K. Le Guin
By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be… — David F. Houston
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to… — Samuel Adams
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed… — Thomas Jefferson
The law of self-preservation is higher than written law. — Thomas Jefferson
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,… — Thomas Jefferson
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is… — Allan Bloom

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