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“We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.”

Has Beens Art Ideas Artist Freedom Personality Art Is Instinct Passionate Painter Works Of Art Sensations Restraint Caricatures Copying

Author:Maurice Denis

“Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.”

People World Wells Whole Shows Together America Law Freedom Compassion Liberty Sacrifice Crime Example Elements Opposites Fundamentals Consistent Heritage Temper Restraint Abiding

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Feelings Would Be Freedom Goodness Majority Convinced Criminals Generous Villain Thieves Restraint Murderer Repression

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.”

Matter Action Religious Freedom Liberty Practice Restraint Scope Religious Liberty Religious Practices

Author:Clarence Thomas

“Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.”

Freedom Liberty Rights Tolerance Proportion Privacy Restraint

Book:The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions

Source: The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions

“A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.”

Wells Littles Hard Feelings Wisdom Freedom Wise Tasks Kingdoms Self Control Restraint Governing Thoughts And Feelings Self Restraint

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”

Life Art Dies Freedom Design Restraint Art Life

Author:Albert Camus

“The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.”

Years Long Self Character Government Freedom Views Quality Development Training Bases Perseverance Restraint Self-government Self Restraint Training And Education

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.”

Freedom Liberty Restraint Frontiers

Author:David Lloyd George

“Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.”

Freedom Liberty Habit Violent Enjoyed Restraint Imposing Orderly Subordination

Book:Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends

Source: Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends

“True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.”

School Sound Freedom Safe Self Confidence Restraint Severity Comets

Author:Michel de Montaigne