Top 260 Preserve Quotes

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.
John Quincy Adams
The policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
Richard J. Daley
I have learnt my boundaries and what I need to do to preserve my energy and not give out too much of myself every night.
Tash Sultana
It is aspiring tyrants who say that ‘civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.’ Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the rule of law find other ways to speak about real terrorist threats, and certainly do not invent them or deliberately make them worse.
Timothy D. Snyder
I want to prevent us reifying ‘the Internet’ as something to be preserved like some people want to preserve the American Constitution as it was written.
Evgeny Morozov
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.
Henry David Thoreau
I’m as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.
David Blunkett
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.
Noah Feldman
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
Ellen Tauscher
A game like ‘Myst’ may be a gorgeous slide show that preserves its beauty at the expense of speed. A game like ‘Doom’ sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye soon adjusts: the degree of detail more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.
Marc Laidlaw
Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.
Anthony Weiner
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
Albert Camus
One of the things I’m so determined to preserve and restore is the fact that you can be the kid who was born in Dinsdale and find yourself working for the British government in the U.K., to being prime minister.
Jacinda Ardern
Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.
Chuck Schumer
We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
Viktor Orban
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
John C. Calhoun
My femininity is always something I’ve tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
Margaret Smith Court
Now, the people that helped get Obama elected, who think Israel is a good idea, need to wake up and tell him they’re our friends, let’s preserve them. And then it would happen. Because that’s the only kind of thing he responds to. But he throws our friends under the bus and rewards our enemies.
Louie Gohmert
In fact, the only way to inspire people to embrace change is through setting a narrative and telling a story. It can be central to innovation and change, and at the same time it can preserve tradition and memories.
Kanika Dhillon
In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going – they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.
Najib Mikati
Citizens do not just make up and preserve a Republic; t

Citizens do not just make up and preserve a Republic; they are its ultimate stakeholders and in fact pillars.
Ram Nath Kovind
We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.
Jose Angel Gurria
We need to reduce carbon emissions, protect Maine’s key industries and preserve our coastlines from flooding and rising sea levels.
Sara Gideon
When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
Yo-Yo Ma
Politics ought to 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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren’t many who predicted it would transform our world.
George Osborne
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking
You don’t restore ‘The Last Supper’ by filling in the missing bits – you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
David Chipperfield
Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren.
Heinrich Himmler
I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody’s grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful.
Diane Arbus
When you grow tomatoes, you’re going to get a lot of tomatoes. So you want to learn how to preserve.
Marc Gasol
Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to preserve the biodiversity around them.
Arancha Gonzalez
To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
Ferdinand Marcos
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
John Boehner
Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever.
Ephraim Mirvis
In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
Ike Skelton
Your parents and people close to you, whenever you want to do something or you want to follow a dream, they’ll try and stop you. It’s not out of their hating, it’s just protection. They want to try and preserve you. Like ‘oh what If he fails?’ From the culture we’re from, they want to protect you.
Israel Adesanya
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
Vikas Swarup
The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won’t understand that if we don’t protect those habitats, we’ll eventually destroy ourselves.
Jack Hanna
The attorney general of New York state has a special authority and responsibility to preserve the integrity of businesses and nonprofits in New York under the state’s own laws as well as under the U.S. Constitution.
Zephyr Teachout
Every good jam tart deserves the finest preserve.
Rachel Khoo
The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
Ted Cruz
We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.
Julie Bishop
We’ve got an outstanding justice system. Our judiciary are respected around the world. It is a key part of what we are as a country. It’s an area where there is a strong political consensus behind that and perhaps in an era of populism it’s important that we preserve those qualities.
David Gauke
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
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Umberto Eco
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H. Lapham
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
Al Franken
The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else’s private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.
Howard Gossage
For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.
Mark Foley
There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.
April Gornik
When I first started, I was much weaker of a singer bec

When I first started, I was much weaker of a singer because I wasn’t used to singing so much. Now I’ve learned, when I’m singing on stage, not to go over. You can go over and mess yourself up. I used to do it all the time, wouldn’t know how to preserve it for the next show.
Brittany Howard
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
We will preserve the environment.
Jair Bolsonaro
Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy – essential to keeping it alive.
Madeleine M. Kunin
I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
Lasse Hallstrom