Protection Quotes

1128 Protection quotes by 874 unique authors

I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise… — Grover Cleveland
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others.… — Dag Hammarskjold
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. — David Suzuki
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is… — John Stuart Mill
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction. — Ed Begley, Jr.
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy. — Jim Ryun
Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection.… — Phyllis McGinley
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector. — John C. Calhoun
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect… — Peter MacKay
In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own… — Sandra Oh
The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections… — Thomas DiLorenzo
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid. — Samantha Power
Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with… — Trevor Phillips
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and… — Andrei Sakharov
The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity,… — Lawrence Summers
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that… — Jeffrey Sachs
If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity… — Manmohan Singh
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose… — Nassau William Senior
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom… — Richard Trumka
Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well… — Fred Upton
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for… — John Yoo
Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should… — Nick Lampson

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