Protection Quotes - Page 13

• Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Allies, Troops, Defence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Needs, Documentaries

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• That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Police, Want, Libertarian

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.479, Spectra

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• Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Guilt, Doe, Innocence

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• Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

  Christina Romer

  Government, Competition, Wages

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• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Elderly, Organization, Volunteer

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• It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense for the American people. These are American resources and American treasures, and we need to make sure we're providing the right kind of protection, oversight and stewardship of these resources for the American people.

  Ken Salazar

  People, New Day, Needs

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• Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Machines, Incumbents

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• John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Organization, Asia, East

  Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Wilfred G. Burchett (1973). “My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Rights, Government, Rare Occasion

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• If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Animal, Lows

  "Religion's regressive hold on animal rights issues" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2010.

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• When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

  Arlen Specter

  Gallery, Amendments, Equal

  "Interview with Senator Arnold Specter". Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 3, 2009.

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• All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

  Lysander Spooner

  Party, Character, Fire

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.242, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Law, Justice

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.1, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

  Leland Stanford

  Important, Wealth, Legislation

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• What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

  Gertrude Stein

  Marriage, Literature, Stones

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.74, Taylor & Francis

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• Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Drug, Competition

  "Exporting I.P". www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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• The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

  Jalal Talabani

  People, Welcome, Regimes

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• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

  Mark Twain

  Fear, Halloween, Temptation

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 36

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• Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

  Andrew Vachss

  Hero, People, Journalism

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• If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

  Gijs de Vries

  Data, Two Sides, Flipping A Coin

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• It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Government

  George Washington (1948). “Basic Writings of George Washington”

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• I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Caves, Decline

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• The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

  Martin Filler

  Museums, Tasks, Generations

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