Guardian Quotes - Page 5

• In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Father, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.33, Best Books on

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• To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

  John Owen

  Angel, Men, Safety

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.

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• As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

  Herb Kohl

  Powerful, Rights, Years

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A so-called news organization called the Denver Guardian - which, by the way, doesn't exist - wrote an article and pushed it on social media that said that the pope had endorsed Donald Trump. That's the perfect definition of fake news. It was intentionally designed to deceive.

  Vivian Schiller

  Organization, Media, Perfect

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Dying, Comfort, Lessons

  Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

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• There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Thinking, Self

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

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• Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Divinity, Fool, Helping

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.52

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• They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God.’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Character, Office, Pirate

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• Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been a guardian of the protections the Constitution provides the American people. She's come to provide balance and a check on government intrusion into our personal privacy and freedoms.

  Patrick Leahy

  Government, Justice, People

  "The Situation: Monday, January 9". The Samuel Alito Hearings, transcripts.cnn.com. January 9, 2006.

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• When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Children, Angel, Heaven

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• In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Fun, Angel, Atheism

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• Nine-tenths of the people are at present freeholders... The time is not distant when this country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers who will receive their bread from their employers. Will such men be the secure and faithful guardians of liberty? Give the votes to people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich who will be able to buy them.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Wisdom, Country, Men

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• Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic plus. Then slipshod usage came in: an egalitarian minus. By now slovenly grammar is even more rife on the BBC channels than on ITV. In this regard a decline can be clearly charted... If the BBC, once the guardian of the English language, has now become its most implacable enemy, let us at least be grateful when the massacre is carried out with style.

  Clive James

  Grateful, Style, Enemy

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• I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

  Willie Nelson

  Running, Angel, Night

  "The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes". Book by Willie Nelson and Larry McMurtry, 2003.

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• The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

  Le Corbusier

  Cities, Citizens, Planning

  "The Edict of Chandigarh". chandigarh.gov.in. December 17, 1959.

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• My dog and 'right hand man,' who recently passed, taught me that guardian angels and cycles tend to come in every form in the universe. He was 8 years old and saw me through 8 independent projects, from an unsure place to a confident one. And now I'm ready to fly.

  Mya

  Dog, Independent, Angel

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• We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

  Jean Cocteau

  Angel, Shelter

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• What we do best is we target the young men and women who are on the fringe. They could go either way. Maybe they have been in trouble before, but not serious trouble. ... We cherry-pick them and circumvent them away from the gang members and drug dealers ... (and encourage) them to hang out with us and become a Guardian Angel.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Angel, Men, Gang Members

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• I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Weakness

  The MSNBC Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.

  Dogen

  Beautiful, Mean, Goal

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.

  James Anthony Froude

  Angel, Thinking, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.37

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• A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Sweet, Kissing, Men

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• Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?" "It sucked." "Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks. "It really sucked," I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.

  Simone Elkeles

  Sarcasm, Hey, Professors

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• love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day... A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!

  Ruskin Bond

  Heart, Mean, Angel

  Ruskin Bond (1997). “Scenes from a Writer's Life”, p.163, Penguin Books India

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• She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together. But not the men? No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi.

  Richelle Mead

  Strong, Children, Believe

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.479, Penguin

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