Quote by William Faulkner
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we pract

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. – William Faulkner

Other quotes by William Faulkner

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps its the risk, the gamble. In any event its a thing I need. – William Faulkner

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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner

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Gratitude
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. – William Faulkner

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Fight, Fighting
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations. – George Bernard Shaw

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. – Hamilton Fish

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. – Author Unknown

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping hell quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash

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Theres something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. – Julie Burchill

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I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting – I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. – Nigel Kennedy

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Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. – Stanislav Grof

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Death