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• We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

  Allen West

  Military, Sleep, Night

  "Remembering our guardians at the gate". Article by Allen West, humanevents.com. May 28, 2012.

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• A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.71

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• In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

  James Madison

  Atheist, People, Church

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• That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

  Plato

  Care, Ridiculous, Should

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.92, Anchor

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• Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.

  Hank Wesselman

  Spiritual, World, Able

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• The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Years, Mind

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• The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Solitude, Wedding Day, Good Marriage

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• The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes.

  George Washington

  Country, Eye, Exercise

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.226

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• You’re a guardian angel now.”.... I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?” “Guard your body.” His smile tipped higher. “I take my job seriously, which means I’m going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Jobs, Mean, Angel

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• The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.

  Muhammad

  Positive, Becoming One, Worst

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• I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Angel, Opportunity

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.142, Om Books International

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• When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man-not merely a person-has to do with that role.

  Jack Donovan

  Struggle, Men, Judging

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• [N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Government, Law

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.269

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• I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Thinking, Hands, Law

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.17, 谷月社

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• The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.

  Aleister Crowley

  Spiritual, Angel, Soul

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• Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

  Ayn Rand

  Religion, Defense, Lines

  "The Romantic Manifesto" by Ayn Rand, (Ch. 3), 1969.

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• So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

  St. Jerome

  Angel, Race, Heaven

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• Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

  Rumi

  Light, Essence, Fearless

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• The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parent, Makers

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.222, Orient Blackswan

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• Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?

  Che Guevara

  Children, Men, Rights

  Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2009). “Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara”, p.114, Ocean Press

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• EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

  Noah Webster

  Education, Religious, Art

  "A Dictionary of the English Language".

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• The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Home, Divine Wisdom

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Angel, Hands, Long

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• One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

  John Paul Stevens

  Years, Law, Judging

  Bush v. Gore (dissenting opinion) (2000)

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• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Character, Angel

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