Price of Liberty Quotes

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

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

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.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

Freedom is great, but expensive.

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.

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

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.