#guard

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves. ↗

— Richard Burr

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#appeal #argument #cannot #change #each

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around. ↗

— Ralph Abernathy

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Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. ↗

— John Acton

#both #condition #conscience #domains #duty

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. ↗

— Aeschines

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Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House. ↗

— Majel Barrett

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Fly you fools ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#guardianship #fool

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. ↗

— Larry David

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