Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), pp. 45-46.
“We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.”
George Mason (1725–1792) American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
Letter to a member of the Brent family (6 December 1770)
“We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe (1948)
Context: The recommendations I have made represent the most urgent steps toward securing the peace and preventing war. We must be ready to take every wise and necessary step to carry out this great purpose. This will require assistance to other nations. It will require an adequate and balanced military strength. We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war. We in the United States remain determined to seek peace by every possible means, a just and honorable basis for the settlement of international issues.
“We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price for it in the loss of picturesqueness and beauty.”
James Nasmyth (1808–1890) Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor
Source: James Nasmyth engineer, 1883, p. 153 (in 2010 edition)
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Speaking on his support for President Johnson in the upcoming presidential election (17 March 1967), as quoted in "I'll Campaign For Johnson," Says Kennedy" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1967/03/18/page/39/article/ill-campaign-for-johnson-says-kennedy
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
The Official Website of the Senate of the Philippines http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2009/0801_escudero1.asp <br class="br">2009, Statement: on the Passing of Former President Corazon C. Aquino
“Error is the price we pay for progress.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
Norman Lamont (1942) British politician
Hansard, HC 6Ser vol 191 col 413 (16 May 1991) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199091/cmhansrd/1991-05-16/Orals-1.html.
“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Reportedly first said by Holmes in a speech in 1904, alternately phrased as "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure", Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100, dissenting; opinion (21 November 1927). The first variation is quoted by the IRS above the entrance to their headquarters at 1111 Constitution Avenue.
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