Cost of Freedom Quotes

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

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

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

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

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.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

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

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

This is a free country but the upkeep is killing us.

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.

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 always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.

He who has stopped to calculate what liberty will cost has renounced liberty in his heart

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.