freedom's cost Quotes

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we have inherited from our fathers only by winning new ones to bequeath our children.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.