Mitt Romney Quotes

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 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.

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

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

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

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

The say that “freedom is not free.” Today we have put a significant down payment on liberty.

Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?

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.

I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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.

Our job here is to defend freedom.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.