Freedom Price Quotes

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.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

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.

It is true that no man is above the law but neither should any man be asked to break the law in order to buy his freedom.

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

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization;

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

He who has stopped to calculate what liberty will cost has renounced liberty in his heart

The problem with money bail, for those who aren't familiar with it, is that it puts a price tag on freedom. It says to someone who is wealthy that no matter how dangerous you are, you can buy your way out.

Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.