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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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"It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice." »Anne Tyler
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"A great meal can be deftly managed or thuggishly muscled, either way resulting in an original offering of scrumptiousness." »Chase LeBlanc
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"But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously." »Paul Wiener
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"It's not the rules and regulations you follow carefully that will win you favor with God but rather offering your life to Him in complete faith that His Son, Jesus Christ, conquered sin and death on your behalf and for your salvation." »James L. Mathews
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"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof." »Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
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"Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection." »Francis Bacon
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"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind." »George Will
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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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"Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction." »Juliene Berk
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"Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction." »Juliene Berk
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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