National Historic Preservation

Famous quotes containing the words national, historic and/or preservation:

    “The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West for it. Nor yet wholly to them.... The job was a great national one.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)