Protecting Public Health

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

    “The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “... work is only part of a man’s life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”
    —Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)