Quotes on Price Of Freedom

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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

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.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

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.

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.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

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.

The price of freedom is death.

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.

The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.