Preserves Quotes - Page 12

• The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  Silly, Dumb, Police

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• This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

  Elmer Davis

  Coward, India, Republic

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• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

  Humphry Davy

  Life, Family, Smile

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.448

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• As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, People, Reform

  "DeMint Weighs In". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

  Jared Diamond

  Country, Coffee, Effort

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• The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Sick, Would Be

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• Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Freedom, Rights

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.219, Best Books on

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• Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

  Anais Nin

  Thinking, Being Sad, Humanity

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• Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Fear, Gun

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• Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

  Mike Pence

  Limits, States, Founders

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

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• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Texas

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• Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

  Plautus

  Country, Courage, Children

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.146, tredition

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Design, Sublime, Genius

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• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Thinking, Drug

  Interview with Ted Demme and Ingrid Sischy, "Ingenue", March 1996.

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• While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

  Jose Rizal

  People, Liberty, Language

  Jose Rizal, Charles Derbyshire (1912). “The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish”

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• Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, New Job, Massachusetts

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• Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

  Mitt Romney

  Marriage, Gay, Wish

  Preserving traditional marriage: a view from the states : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, June 22, 2004.

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• The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

  Mitt Romney

  Becoming One, America, Darkness

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suicide, Men, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.142, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Preserve the President's options. He may need them.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Hype, President, Needs

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

  Paul Ryan

  Commitment, Opportunity, Giving

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Saving the American Idea". dailysignal.com. October 26, 2011.

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• The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

  George Santayana

  Health, Men, Disease

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, America, Honor

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", Live Coverage of Republican Presidential Contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, www.cnn.com. February 7, 2012.

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• For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Animal, Community, Vices

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

  Junipero Serra

  Inspirational, Life, Years

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