“This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve.”

“Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving”

“First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?”

“What is the object of defense? To preserve. To preserve is easier than to acquire.”

“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”

“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.”

“In empire, you believe in that which you preserve, you preserve that which you are entitled to, and you are entitled to that which you have accumulated. … That is the religion, the animating spirit, of empire.”

“I have given you independence, now go and preserve it.”

“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve the purity of it.”

“Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.”