Paulo Coelho on freedom

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

Solitude is not the absence of Love, but its complement… Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.

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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

John Philpot Curran1750–1817Often credited to Thomas Jefferson

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790This was first used by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its “Reply to the Governor” (November 11, 1755) Reply to the Governor

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