Value of Liberty Quotes

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.

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.