Protection
The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.
That which protects or preserves from injury; a defense; a shield; a refuge.
A writing that protects or secures from molestation or arrest; a pass; a safe-conduct; a passport.
A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade.
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Protection Quotations
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Andrew Jackson
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
James Madison
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
James Madison
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James Madison
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Gertrude Stein
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey
Protection Translations
protection in Danish is beskyttelse
protection in Dutch is bescherming
protection in German is Schutz
protection in Italian is protezione
protection in Latin is ara, tutamen, tutela, custodia, munimentum
protection in Spanish is amparo
protection in Swedish is skydd, beskydd
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