“Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.” WorldMightFeltDutyCeasePreservesConcentrationCampsAncestorConcentration Camp Author:Roman Vishniac
“We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.” LawLandFashionDutySacredSupposed To BePreservesConceitAdaptedWhimsical Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.” LandConditionsDutyHugeComplexesEnvironmentalPreservesIslandsParksNativeSustainabilityInteractionContinuityNational ParksContinuity Of Life Author:William Kittredge
“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.” MenFirstsSelfWisdomAmericaPoliticalPoliticsEconomyRightsJudgingDutyCircumstancesJudgmentGunResistanceCommandObediencePreservesLiberalismRulersEntitledGun ControlPreservationObligedQualifiedEvaluateSelf PreservationWarrantsMagistratesSingle ManInalienable RightsDuty To God Author:John Locke
“Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it, as the most sacred of all our civil and social duties... It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals to preserve liberty. It can only be effected by the people themselves; by their intelligence, virtue, courage, and patriotism.” PeopleFirstsCoursesIndividualSocialLibertyVirtueDutyBlessingSacredObligationPreserves Author:John C. Calhoun
“Men and women who live in America...have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.” PeopleMenChristianAmericaResponsibilityPrinciplesGreaterLandDutyMen And WomenConstitutionObligationPreservesImmortalDocuments Author:David O. McKay
“The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.” RaceDutyPreservesPersonal Freedom Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf