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• Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of youth should be accommodated to that form of government under which they live; forasmuch as it makes exceedingly for the preservation of the present government, whatsoever it be.

  John Adams

  Children, Government, Principles

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.197

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• We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

  John Adams

  Men, Soul, Liberty

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.320, Library of America

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• Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Gun, Men

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• Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

  John Adams

  Life, Nature, Gun

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.438

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• Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three forms of government commonly known in the schools, reserving as much of the monarchical splendor, the aristocratical independency, and the democratical freedom, as are necessary that each of these powers may have a control, both in legislation and execution, over the other two, for the preservation of the subject's liberty.

  John Adams

  School, Government, Two

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.480

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• Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thousands of years, males have seen women not as women could be, but only as males want them to be.

  Marvin Harris

  Men, Years, Males

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• When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Oklahoma, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within - and he was also within his natural right, because first law of nature is self-preservation.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Self, Law

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• And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.

  William Blackstone

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Sir William BLACKSTONE, Samuel Warren (1856). “Blackstone's Commentaries systematically abridged and adapted to the existing state of the law and constitution, with great additions. By Samuel Warren”, p.101

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• When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime. That is why the true warrior cannot speak of battle save to his brothers who have been there with him. The truth is too holy, too sacred, for words." -Suicide (Gates of Fire)

  Steven Pressfield

  Suicide, Brother, Heart

  Steven Pressfield (1999). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Bantam

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• It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Civilization, Growth, Important

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, "Conscious" Direction and the Growth of Reason (ch. 9), 1952.

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• Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Liberty, Economic

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

  Gustav Mahler

  Fire, History, Ashes

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• After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

  Melina Mercouri

  Government, Greek, Independence

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• He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who proceeds without principle, as chance, timidity, or self-preservation directs, will not perhaps fare better; but he will be less blamed.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Party, Self, Punishment

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• The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

  Francois Fenelon

  War, Blood, Ought

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• I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations

  Robert E. Lee

  Father, War, Fall

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.45, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Pride, Opportunity, Civilization

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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• This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

  John Thune

  Independent, Approval Rating, Self

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• We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Men, Land

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• To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.

  Derrick Jensen

  Self, Civilization, Ignorant

  Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.149, Seven Stories Press

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• The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

  David O. McKay

  Home, America, United States

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• People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that has an extra medium of design preservation and design communication: culture.

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, Communication, People

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

  Theodore Parker

  Divine Order, Body, Temperance

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.18

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• Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

  Ani DiFranco

  Self, Occupation, Self Preservation

  Song: Talk To Me Now, Album: Ani DiFranco

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