Top 60 Freedom Cost Quotes
#1. Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.
Florinda Donner
#2. Dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.
Noam Chomsky
#3. The cost of freedom is always high, but people have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
#4. Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.
Jim Rowe
#5. There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these things about arming for tyranny. There's also a cost to letting the government say these ideas can't be expressed, this is treason. It's difficult.
Glenn Greenwald
#6. Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.
Daniel Kahneman
#7. Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you
Lay your body down
Stephen Stills
#8. It was peace, deeper and broader than the starfields around him. It was belonging. It was freedom. Kneeling before the one who could only be the Ancient had not been the cost of freedom, but the means. For a long time he laughed and wept and laughed again, released.
Jonathan Renshaw
#9. If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.
Tim Robbins
#10. Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.
William Borah
#11. She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.
Laini Taylor
#12. Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#13. Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.
Lena Headey
#14. The ever-increasing weight of responsibilities that enmeshes our lives keeps us locked into the system. We become the pulse that keeps the beast alive, but the cost is our own lives. The natural world around us shrinks, crushed beneath the suffocating might of work.
Fennel Hudson
#15. Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell
#16. To The Veterans of the United States of America
Thank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech (thus my book), and for all the freedoms that we daily take for granted.
Sara Niles
#17. Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.
Stephen Jay Gould
#18. It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
Murray N. Rothbard
#19. But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy.
Phil Robertson
#20. Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
William J. Clinton
#21. My service solidified my respect for our freedom, and the struggle to preserve it. I know the cost of obtaining freedom, keeping it and the value of it.
Brad Wenstrup
#22. We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.
H.L. Mencken
#23. In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.
Adolf Hitler
#24. Posterity
you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams
#25. America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.
Louis B. Mayer
#26. It's best not to wonder at what cost. Freedom is the only price to pay for anything in this place.
Lauren DeStefano
#28. Cost, cost, cost. Freedom costs. That's life.
Kata Mlek
#29. Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.
Terry Goodkind
#30. To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people's aloneness.
Rajneesh
#31. To walk in this same power, however--to run with the wind and be free in our souls to live the fullest possible life, here on earth and in eternity--there is a cost. Freedom comes with a choice.
Brett Champan
#32. But nothing's really free, is it? People always make you pay one way or another.
Jane Lotter
#33. 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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#34. The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find the implement your own desires.
Steven Redhead
#35. Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
#36. Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.
Aaron Tippin
#37. Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.
Francine Rivers
#38. My lord, I cannot thank you enough for what you've done for my daughters," he muttered. Lucien had paid Roland's debts, however it had cost her father his freedom to allow Lucien to do so. Their agreement
Denise Hampton
#39. There's no way to avoid a burden on your freedom. The costs themselves are a burden on your freedom. The restrictions that are necessary in order to get rid of the terrorists are a burden to your freedom. So there's no way in the short run to avoid a restriction on your freedom.
Milton Friedman
#40. A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
Ivor Novello
#41. To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
Ezra Taft Benson
#42. He made a mistake, one that would send him to death row and eventually cost him his freedom for life.
John Grisham
#43. I will do my duty no matter what the price, I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice. Oh, and I don't want to die for you, but if dying is asked of me, I'll bear that cross of honor cause freedom don't come free.
Toby Keith
#44. I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody's money and take away the trust we have.
Mikko Hypponen
#45. Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.
T.F. Hodge
#46. We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#47. Forgiving someone may cost you your pride, but not forgiving them will cost you your freedom.
Charles F. Glassman
#48. Hence, the statement that the cost of living is different in different localities only means that the same individual cannot secure the same degree of satisfaction from the same stock of goods in different places.
Ludwig Von Mises
#49. [The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.
Antonin Scalia
#50. The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.
Judith Martin
#51. Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.
John Warner
#52. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry
#54. Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
Dean Kamen
#55. Of course, in the U.S. the government and politics are gaining more and more ground lately at the cost of the law. The government is very smart; it evokes terror in the hearts of people to convince them to give up their freedom and privacy.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#56. The moneyprice of any commodity in any place, under the assumption of completely unrestricted exchange and disregarding the differences arising from the time taken in transit, must be the same as the price at any other place, augmented or diminished by the money-cost of transport.
Ludwig Von Mises
#57. We will never, never sell our freedom for capital or technical aid. We stand for freedom at any cost.
Tom Mboya
#58. We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
Felix Frankfurter
#59. Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#60. If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.
Orison Swett Marden
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