Richard Bach Quotes

We cannot sacrifice our humanity in the name of security - or we risk losing both.

He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

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

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.

When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.

The sacrifice of the brave men and women of the military and their families allows us to be safe, and we are grateful.

I am exceptionally fond of all the brave servicemen and women who have worked, and continue to work, to keep us safe and secure, and protect our values.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.