Guard Quotes - page 3

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. (Will Durant)
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery. View quote
Jonathan Sacks
...ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth. View quote
William Faulkner
I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball, Bryon Russell came over to me and said, "Why'd you quit? You know I could guard you." When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in '96, I'm at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, "You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' View quote
Michael Jordan
The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another : I want your approbation, you stand in need of mine. By forsaking the converse of men, we forsake the virtues necessary for society; for when one is alone, one is apt to grow negligent; the world forces you to have a guard over yourself. View quote
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. (Louis Brandeis)
So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!" View quote
Conor Oberst
To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary. View quote
Jerry Pournelle
We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must recognise that we have a great treasure to guard; that the inheritance in our possession represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause? View quote
Winston Churchill
Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. View quote
Jean Cocteau
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation. View quote
John Locke
But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them. (Martin Luther)
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses. View quote
Aldo Leopold
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away. View quote
Neal Shusterman
I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way. ... "What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me. View quote
Rick Riordan