Preservation Quotes

"I paint flowers so they will not die" "The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself" "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." "The world is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations" "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom." "A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands" "Posterity — you will never know how much it has cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it" "In wildness is the preservation of the world" "Government has no other end but the preservation of property" "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom" "No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping" "The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without." "Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably" "We must start acting today to preserve tomorrow" "Posterity, you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it" "In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it." "No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation" "Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future." "For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it."