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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• 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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• In wildness is the preservation of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Camping, World, Transcendentalism

  "Walking" (1862)

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  We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Thinking, Self

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

  Dian Fossey

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

  Elihu Root

  Rights, Government, People

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• I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation

  Strom Thurmond

  Appreciate, Black, Minorities

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• Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

  Robert Hewison

  Teamwork, Country, Museums

  Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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• My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

  Sue Kelly

  Effort, Environmental, Legacy

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• Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

  Gerald Durrell

  Zoos, Sides, Should

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• The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life, Nature, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.98, Broadview Press

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• I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Long, Historical, Supportive

  Jack L. Chalker (1988). “Dance Band on the Titanic”, Del Rey

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• If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

  Agnes Macphail

  Home, Mean, Break

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• Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Gold, Coal

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Believe, Survival, Inheritance

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• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Government, Ends

  1681 Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

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• We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Views, Umpires, Justice

  "Individualism: True and False". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1945.

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• As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

  Diogenes

  Friendship, Good Friend, Men

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• Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

  Audre Lorde

  Caring, Compassion, Self

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.130, Courier Dover Publications

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• This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Silly, Appreciate

  "Bush Finds It Easy to Slip on an Icy Campaign Trail". articles.latimes.com. January 28, 2000.

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