It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

-Anonymous
  Statement issued by the US army, referring to Ben Tre in Vietnam. In the NewYork Times, 8 Feb.

Save something for theThird Act.

-Anonymous
Show business adage applied by President Reagan to his final months in the White House. Quoted in Time,16 Mar1987.

   He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 27:42.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

-DeVries, Peter
  The Mackerel Plaza, ch.1.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

-Dowd, Maureen
  Advice for political survival in Washington. In the US News and World Report, 9  Jan.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

-Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren
  Speech at Foyle's Literary Luncheon, London, in honour of his 75th birthday.

Les femmes aiment fort a'   sauver qui les perd. Women love to save those who damn them.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Ruy Blas, act1, sc.4.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.

-Jordan,June
  Keynote address for Child Welfare League of  America. Collected as'Old Stories: New Lives' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

-Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder
  In conversation with one of his private secretaries, Nov.

It is defiantöthe desperate act of men too profoundly convinced of the rottenness of our civilization to want to save a shred of its respectability.

-Read, Sir Herbert Edward
  Catalogue of the International Surrealist Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London, Jun/Jul, introduction.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in everyage to save those that have no imagination?

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Saint  Joan, epilogue.

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditionöa desire which†comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.

We may say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General† Maintain your rage and your enthusiasm for the election now to be held and until polling day.

-Whitlam, (Edward) Gough
  On the Governor-General SirJohn Kerr's action in dissolving theAustralian Parliament,11 Nov.Whitlam lost the subsequent election.