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61 " ...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life. "
― Kevin Alan Lee , Ethical Motivations
62 " Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. "
― Theodore Roosevelt
63 " Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights. "
64 " Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. "
― Gustav Mahler
65 " Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage. "
― , Khu: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
66 " God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God. "
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies
67 " As usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to; so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can have a right to. And this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private separate advantage. When the governor, however intitled, makes not the law, but his will, the rule; and his commands and actions are not directed to the preservation of the properties of his people, but the satisfaction of his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular passion. "
― John Locke , Second Treatise of Government
68 " This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit; for we cannot exist long without the destruction of other animal or vegetable beings either in their mature or embryon state. Such is the condition of mortality, that the first law of nature is 'eat, or be eaten.' Hence for the preservation of our existence we may be supposed to have a natural right to kill those brute creatures, which we want to eat, or which want to eat us; but to destroy even insects wantonly shows an unreflecting mind, or a depraved heart. "
― Erasmus Darwin ,
69 " Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ. "
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer , The Cost of Discipleship
70 " For though I was raised Protestant, my true religion is actually civility. Please note that I do not call my faith “politeness.” That’s part of it, yes, but I say civility because I believe that good manners are essential to the preservation of humanity— one’s own and others’— but only to the extent that that civility is honest and reasonable, not merely the mindless handmaiden of propriety. "
― Kathleen Rooney , Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
71 " There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for. "
― , Sharkwater: The Photographs
72 " A person's self worth or inner merit is the essential commodity, whereas fame is something secondary, the mere shadow of merit. " It is not fame but whereby we merit it that is of true value....a man's greatest happiness is not that posterity will know something about him but he himself will develop thoughts that deserve consideration and preservation for centuries. "