Preservation Quotes

• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Wisdom, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Freedom, Patriotic

  Title of speech to the people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese constitution. MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks (1965), p. 194. Francis T. Miller, General Douglas MacArthur, Fighter for Freedom, p. 1, 1942.

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• The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Epic, Soul, Tragedy

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Gun

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  Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

  Cesar Chavez

  Other Cultures, Diversity, Disrespect

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

  Sam Houston

  Education, Government, Aquariums

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• The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Destiny, Government

  First Inaugural Address, New York, N.Y., 30 Apr. 1789

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• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  Walter Lang

  Ideas, Scripture, Progressive

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• All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Book, Magic

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

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• Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

  Andrew Marvell

  Fear, Men, Self

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• The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

  John Locke

  Men, Reason Why, Property

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.377

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• He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wisdom, Self, Rich

  "Scoop". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1938.

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• The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

  Berenice Abbott

  Cameras, Photographer, Instruments

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• Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Cute, Philosophical

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• We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

  Aldo Leopold

  Respect, Nature, Community Living

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Rights, Effort

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

  Clara Zetkin

  Life, Fighting, Men

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• On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

  Daniel Webster

  Education, People, Institutions

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1856). “Biographical memoir of the public life of Daniel Webster”, p.403

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• 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 the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

  Ann Coulter

  Differences, America, Self

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.28, Crown Forum

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• 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 preservation and that of the race.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Race, Self, Our Actions

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• The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

  Herbert Spencer

  Health, Exercise, Atheism

  1861 Education, ch.4.

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• Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Merit, Plagiarism

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.443

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• Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Jealous, Reality, Losing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

  Jose Marti

  Sacrifice, Self, Glory

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

  Clark Kerr

  Confused, Balance, Sake

  Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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