Democracy and security do not fall from heaven — they come with a cost.

In certain natures, the conflict between social convention and repressed spontaneity is so violent that it manifests itself in crime, insanity, and neurosis, which are the prices we pay for the otherwise undoubted benefits of order.

Everyone desires outrages to cease, and its perpetrators, from whatever camp they proceed, to be detected and punished. (Hear, hear.) But this cannot be too clearly said—it is possible for the State to pay too high a price for what is called the vindication of the law. The price is too high, far too high, when it involves the enthronement in the seat of justice of revenge, and the borrowing by the Executive of the criminals' own methods of indiscriminate robbery, arson, and murder. (Cheers.)

External vigilance is the price of liberty.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire.

eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

[I]t is nevertheless proper to make men aware that the price they pay for attempting to uphold the artificial right of property, is nothing less than the enormous sum of misery inflicted in the name of law and government.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The price of repression is greater than the cost of liberty. The degradation of men costs something both to the degraded and those who degrade.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.