Jerry Pournelle Quotes

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

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.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

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.

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

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

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

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

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

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

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

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Freedom is great, but expensive.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

What I have learned is that freedom is not free.

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 only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

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

I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

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

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.