#preservation

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. ↗

— George Bentham

#began #between #carelessly #collected #dry

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#been #cases #congress #constitutional #despite

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#defense #despotism #destroy #doors #everywhere

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. ↗

— John Locke

#government #other #preservation #property

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. ↗

— John Locke

#into #men #preservation #property #reason

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. ↗

— Andrew Marvell

#creatures #doth #except #first #great

She’d said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and he’d thrown it back at her. To save her. To save himself. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#love #preservation #beauty

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inform #liberty #mass #only #our

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#object #preservation #victory #war

She didn’t dare expose her heart the way she’d exposed her body. ↗

— Nicki Elson

#seduction #self-preservation #sex #love