Definition of Preservation

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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

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
Berenice Abbott

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose Bierce

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Preservation Translations

preservation in French is conservation
preservation in German is Konservierung, Erhaltung
preservation in Swedish is bevarande

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