Protecting Public Health

Famous quotes containing the words protecting, public and/or health:

    “America today is capable of terrific intolerance about smoking, or toxic waste that threatens trout. But only a deeply confused society is more concerned about protecting lungs than minds, trout than black women.”
    —Garry Wills (b. 1934)

    “Texas is a heaven for men and dogs but hell for women and oxen.”
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “I am astonished at the singular pertinacity and endurance of our lives. The miracle is, that what is is, when it is so difficult, if not impossible, for anything else to be; that we walk on in our particular paths so far, before we fall on death and fate, merely because we must walk in some path; that every man can get a living, and so few can do anything more. So much only can I accomplish ere health and strength are gone, and yet this suffices.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)