Paul Gillmor Quotes

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

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

What I have learned is that freedom is not 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.

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

Freedom has never been free.

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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

Freedom is great, but expensive.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing.

They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?

If American lives must end, and American treasure be spilled, in countries we barely know, that is the price that change has demanded of conviction and of our enduring covenant.

Freedom ... comes with a price tag of great expectations.

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.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

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

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

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.

This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

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.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?