Quotes About Preservation

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die...

Clearly, He tells His own, Christians and Jews, to flee from the rich, powerful nation he calls the Daughter of Babylon, in order to preserve their lives from the coming destruction that the nation will have invited upon itself.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future

In politics, again, it is almost a commonplace, that a party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life; until the one or the other shall have so enlarged its mental grasp as to be a party equally of order and of progress, knowing and distinguishing what is fit to be preserved from what ought to be swept away.

It never seems to have occured to you that in Nature life is growth, and preservation is an accident. ... What is preserved in the rocks or in ice is only the image of life, but you were always regarding local taboos as eternal verities, and attempting to preserve them.

I have also paid some attention to what language can tell us. Messages perish as they are uttered, but language itself is remarkably durable. Sometimes it preserves useful clues to a more abstract and thought-oriented part of the human past than material artifacts do.

God will preserve all who walk in the path of obedience; but to depart from it is to venture on Satan's ground.

You are done for — a living dead man — not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

A nation will be automatically destroyed if its people forget their religion , culture and tradiations.

The State, for its own preservation, must necessarily be powerful as regards foreign affairs; but if it is so as regards foreign affairs, it will infallibly be so as regards home affairs.

Komm bald zurück! Wir machen nabenmono! Ich will Dich sehen! Ich will Dich sehen und mit Dir reden, ich hab Dir so viel zu sagen! Dieses Gefühl - mir Dir reden zu wollen, meine ich - möchte ich mir für immer bewahren. Ich will nicht, dass wir uns voneinander entfernen. Ich möchte Dir immer alles mitteilen. Dieses Gefühl braucht niemand zu verstehen. Ich will es nur mitteilen, zumindest versuchen will ich das.

Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realize that reciting red indian proverbs makes you sound like a fucking muppet.

Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realise that reciting red indian proverbs makes you sound like a fucking muppet.

If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge to corporations, we will have neither access nor preservation.

Is there any sadder sight than a burnt out library?

Hard science alone does not do justice to the cause of fully preserving the past. For that, you also need heart, a capacity for appreciating the drama and tragedy of a ship's dying moments.

The] right of the individual is co-extensive with its determinate power. ... Nature's bounds are not set by the laws of human reason which aim only at man's true interest and his preservation ... man is but a particle.

He who exults in popular esteem has the daily burden of anxiously striving, acting and contriving to preserve his reputation. For the populace is fickle and inconstant, and unless a reputation is preserved it soon withers away.

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.