A Quote by Romain Rolland

A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.

Romain Rolland

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Romain Rolland
French - Novelist
January 29, 1866 - December 30, 1944

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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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Al Franken

We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

Indira Gandhi

Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.

Richard Bach

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Alain Juppe

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

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Michael Huffington

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive and the legislature not simply exercise raw power but adhere to standards of reasonableness and constitutionality.

Jed S. Rakoff

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Elie Wiesel

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.

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Ayn Rand

Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!

Pope Francis

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