America is a grand example of the Biblical challenge: what does it profit an empire to gain the whole world and lose its soul?

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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

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.

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Long toil and short leisure are part of the heavy price we pay for our North American standard of living. It is reputed to be the highest in the world, and so it should be, for it is bought at an inordinate price.

If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive.

To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

We pay for these things too much in honour and in innocent lives.

There is an imperialism that deserves all honor and respect — an imperialism of service in the discharge of great duties. But with too many it is the sense of domination and aggrandisement, the glorification of power. The price of peace is eternal vigilance.

Inequality was the price of civilization.