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Quotes About Sacrifice

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
~ Richard G. Scott
There's always a down side with any freedom. It's not just homosexual freedom, but any sexual freedom comes at a price, and that is usually art.
~ Lenny Bruce
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.
~ Doc Hastings
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
~ Antonio Porchia
He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.
~ Park Dietz
Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
~ Jack Kevorkian
The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
~ Tammy Baldwin
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
~ Seneca the Younger
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
Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
~ Iris Murdoch
On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.
~ Jerry Pournelle
What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.
~ Joyce Kilmer
Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.
~ Jud Wilhite
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both
~ Benjamin Franklin
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.
~ Esther Forbes