“If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.” PeopleIfsWholeHandsLibertyDutyInstitutionsPreservation Author:Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.” WayShouldWellsLittlesCountryWholeIndividualGainsDestructionConservativeCriminalsForestsWell BeingPermitPreservation Book:Presidential addresses and state papers Source: Presidential addresses and state papers
“In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.” MenWellsHas BeensWholePoliticalSocialPartyCuttingEconomicFiguresRevolutionPeriodsDestructionOur TimeSuspectsCivilizedSpheresPreservationPatheticRestorationUltras Book:Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New Source: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New