..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend
Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day
Freedom is a hard-bought thing.
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
I shall have my hands full. He is as honest as he is shrewd; and if I beat him, my victory will be hardly won.
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won.
We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
