Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing.

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

What I have learned is that freedom is not free.

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

Liberty is worth paying for.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

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.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

Freedom is great, but expensive.

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

Money often costs too much.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

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

Grace is free, but it's not cheap.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

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.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

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

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Freedom always comes with a price.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.