Best 454 quotes in «protection quotes» category

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.

Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats.

A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.

Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

Dedicating time when I really can't afford to be I'll provide protection if you open up the door for me

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?

For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.

Here's your protection for whatever comes: Find something to be happy about every day, and every hour if possible, moment-to-moment, even if only for a few minutes.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

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I don't believe a religion affords any protection if they are connected to any kind of terror.

If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection.

I feel a complete protection on my pilgrimage. God is my shield. There are no accidents in the Divine Plan nor does God leave us unattended. No one walks so safely as those who walk humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith.

In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

I just wore a cage my whole career coming up, and didn't feel a reason not to have some type of protection.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

I need the protection of seeming weak.

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it.

In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.