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 (17671845)
“Along the highway, all but lost among blatant neon lights flashing Whiskey and Dance and Dine, are crudely daubed warnings erected by itinerant evangelists, announcing that Jesus is soon coming, or exhorting the traveler to prepare to meet thy God.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)