Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.1.

   Power isnot a means, it is an end.One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt.3, ch.3.

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty.

-Wordsworth,William
  OfVenice.'On the Extinction of theVenetian Republic', l.1^4 (published1807).