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"As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection." »Ronald Reagan
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"Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?" »B. F. Skinner
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"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency." »Raymond Chandler
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"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference." »Fred Allen
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"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection." »Francis Bacon
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"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles." »Mark Twain
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"Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit." »John Stuart Mill
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"The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand." »Susan B. Anthony
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"Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection." »General Colin Powell
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"In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law." »Charles de Montesquieu
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"Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." »James Madison, Federalist 10
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"We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege." »Lawton Chiles
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"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties." »George Bernard Shaw
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"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society." »Peter Kropotkin
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"Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness." »Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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"Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend… The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government." » Ralph Waldo Emerson, …Journal, 1860
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"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him." »Buddha
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"Austin Powers No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound" »Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
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"If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others." »Walter Scott
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"A lion or a tiger does not need bodyguards; only the weak and the coward need warriors to protect him! A king needs an army and soldiers, because he is weak and powerless. Wherever you see someone protected; there, you will see either the weak or the coward! Strong fist does not require defenders! Shining sword is not in need of protection!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods." »Victor Cousin
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"All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods." »Victor Cousin
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"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in education these days arises, not from defects in the students,teachers or schools, not from want of equipment or technology, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of honor, virtue and kindness. Sound education... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection of childhood, on unselfish performance of teachers and on accountability and reliability." »Paul. F. Meekin
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"The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov
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"One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950
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