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“You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.”

Ifs Understanding Growth Realizing Liberty Tree Movement Waste Conscious Paint Unnecessary Living Things

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.”

Men Needs Light Growth Liberty Plant Instinct Intuition Genuine Expansion

Book:Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others

Source: Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others

“Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.”

People Doe Values Growth Liberty Sun Virtue Morality Relation Sake Weed Temperance

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The American people want jobs and economic growth. Congress is doing nothing to provide that. The American people want their constitutional liberties protected. Congress is doing nothing to provide that.”

People Want Jobs Growth Liberty Economic Congress Protected Doing Nothing Economic Growth

Author:Ted Cruz

“The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.”

“Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.”

Men Wells Doe Action Nations Growth Race Liberty Conditions He Man Well Being Thoughts And Actions

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.”

People Ifs Stills Reason Force Growth Liberty Progress Roots Mere Accidents Tyranny Unprepared

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

“Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.”

People Want May Ends Spirit Names Growth Freedom Liberty Progress Substance Boon

Book:The Importance and Means of a National Literature

Source: The Importance and Means of a National Literature

“Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.”

Firsts Soul Body Fall Grows Growth Liberty Cases Feet Conditions Grew Opposites West Western Ancestor Eastern Bondage Shackles Falling Off

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.”

“Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.”

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”