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  • 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.

    "The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America".
  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

    First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
  • Pain is part of the price of freedom.

  • The price of freedom is death.

  • It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

    Fate   Men   Rights  
    Speech on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, 10 July 1790. Usually quoted as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," which has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but no one has ever found this in his writings. Atkinson's Casket, Sept. 1833, has "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." See Andrew Jackson 5
  • We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of freedom.

    Comfort   Needs   Kind  
    "Americans urged to enjoy 4th, stay vigilant". www.cnn.com. July 1, 2002.
  • He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

    Pain   Freedom   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow
  • If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

    "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.
  • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  • I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

    Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

    Life   Change   Happiness  
    Declaration of Independence (1776).
  • Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

    Country   Freedom   Gun  
    Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787
  • I have sworn upon the altar of god.

    Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800
  • Government is best which governs least

  • The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

  • the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801
  • The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

  • 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.

    "United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78, 95". Judicial opinion, 1944.
  • The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

  • That government is best which governs least.

    Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1
  • There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

    "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.
  • The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

    Greg Bear (2016). “Far Thoughts and Pale Gods”, p.56, Open Road Media
  • Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

    Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel"
  • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

  • 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.

    Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962
  • Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

    Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.
  • The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

  • The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

  • History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

    1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.
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