Open Space Preserve

Famous quotes containing the words open, space and/or preserve:

“This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ... and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The worst of charity is, that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)