Seneca the Younger Quotes

Because freedom is so precious, its cost is so high.

The price for freedom is high but it is never too high.

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom.

The say that “freedom is not free.” Today we have put a significant down payment on liberty.

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.

Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.

I will do my duty no matter what the price, I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice. Oh, and I don't want to die for you, but if dying is asked of me, I'll bear that cross of honor cause freedom don't come free.

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.