Guardian Quotes

• Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Blame

• I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Power
  • Guardian

• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

  

  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  • Guardian
  • Chemist
  • Perchance

• Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Important
  • Long
  • Secret

• Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.

  

  Danila Kozlovsky
  • Good
  • She
  • Friends

• The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

  

  William Henry Harrison
  • People
  • Exercise
  • Duty

• I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Soul
  • Wonder
  • Hatred

• Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Dogma
  • Guardian
  • Fathom

• The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Wishes
  • Selfishness
  • Guardian

• You seem to forget that I'm Evie's legal guardian." "And you seem to forget that there's absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Forget
  • Considering
  • Forged

• Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Freedom
  • Respect
  • Regard

• So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Guardian
  • Philosophic

• In friendship there is nothing more outstanding than faithfulness, which seems to be both the nurse and guardian of friendship.

  

  Aelred of Rievaulx
  • Friendship
  • Faithfulness
  • Guardian

• I think that overall, ultimately the impact of advertisers calling the shots is a more cloying, complacent culture. For example, it was just announced that Unilever is branding environmental content at The Guardian. How radical or pointed can that content be?

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Environmental

• If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Teacher
  • Sorrows
  • Aspirations

• That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

  

  Plato
  • Care
  • Guardian
  • Require

• I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Believe
  • Thoughtful
  • Guardian

• But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Reality
  • Sleep
  • Darkness

• It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.

  

  Westbrook Pegler
  • Community
  • Individual
  • Would

• Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Home
  • House
  • Study

• Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Children
  • Choices
  • Responsible

• In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

  

  David Connolly
  • Teacher
  • Angel
  • Righteous

• Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor.

  

  Katie MacAlister
  • Doctor
  • Guardian
  • Dammit

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