Protecting Public Health

Famous quotes containing the words protecting, public and/or health:

    “Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.”
    —Ernest Renan (1823–1892)

    “Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner’s claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, ‘A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!’”
    —For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)