Protection Quotes

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)
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. View quote
James Madison
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. View quote
Graham Greene
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. View quote
Herbert Hoover
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The best protection any woman can have... is courage. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. View quote
Saul Bellow
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries. View quote
Rene Cassin
Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
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. View quote
George Washington
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. View quote
Marcus Garvey
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. View quote
Max Brooks
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. View quote
Learned Hand
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. View quote
Walter Scott
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. View quote
Joseph Conrad
A man without a vote is man without protection. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery. View quote
John Ralston Saul
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances. View quote
Ulrich Beck
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy. View quote
Leon Bourgeois