Freedom Cost Quotes

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will loose its freedom.

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

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.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance?

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

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

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

The really nice thing with 'Future Past' is that you actually have a superhero film - much to everyone's surprise, I will hope - that is about something. It's about racism, I hope. It's about resisting oppression. It's about fighting for freedom and the cost of fighting for freedom.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

I'm not a fool and when I swap my life for liberty I've got to know in advance what liberty is, and whose idea of liberty we're talking about and just how much of that liberty we're going to have.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not — we will not — travel down that hellish path blindly.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.