Preserve Quotes

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. (Thomas Aquinas)
Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it! View quote
Yuri Gagarin
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. View quote
Denis Diderot
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. View quote
Matthew Henry
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
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. View quote
George F. Kennan
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. View quote
Helen Thomas
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. View quote
Eisaku Sato
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. (John Adams)
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. View quote
James Madison
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. View quote
Thomas Paine
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. View quote
Karel Čapek
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant and of all tame, a flatterer. View quote
Ben Jonson
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. View quote
John C. Calhoun
Reform, that we may preserve. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. View quote
Francis Bacon
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)
I always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. View quote
Gerry Spence
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. View quote
John Locke