Medgar Evers Quotes

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Liberty has its roots in blood.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing.

What I have learned is that freedom is not free.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Liberty is worth paying for.

Military success against autocratic governments and their selfish and cruel policies of conquest became the one object of the whole people, no matter at what cost.

Freedom—the power to do what we like—a little thing it seems, but it has been bought with a great price.

The price of freedom is death.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Give me liberty or give me death.

Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.

One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

The cost of liberty is less than the price or repression.

Our wars were not fought for the glory of war, but for freedom.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor.

Peoples, in their constant efforts for the triumph of the ideal of liberty and justice, are forced, at precise historical moments, to make their greatest sacrifices. Our beloved country has reached one of those moments.

There was a price paid for the freedom that we have. And that price was paid in blood…. Somebody paid a price for us to have access to that ballot box.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants