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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. – Patrick Henry	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. – Robert Byrne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. – Ronald Reagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it. – Corazn Cojuangco Aquino	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Politics should 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. – Lucille Ball	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. – Charles Gates Dawes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society. – Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. – George Frost Kennan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise. – Aldo Leopold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. – George Jean Nathan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it. – Sen O'Faolin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future. – Dr. Dale E. Turner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country. – Paul Weyrich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. – Meister Eckhart	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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