Preserve

Famous quotes containing the word preserve:

    Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
    Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)