Definition of Preservation
Preservation
The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation.
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Preservation Quotations
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose Bierce
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Preservation Translations
preservation in French is conservation
preservation in German is Konservierung, Erhaltung
preservation in Swedish is bevarande
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