“For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Courting of Dinah Shadd (1890).
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“We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.”
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.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Des Moines Iowa speech (1 February 1916) http://www.combat.ws/S3/BAKISSUE/CMBT01N2/SMOKE.HTM, on "The Westerm Preparedness Tour" http://www.allthingswilliam.com/presidents/wilson.html <br class="br">1910s
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
“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)
“Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire.”
Patrick Buchanan (1938) American politician and commentator
2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
“No price is too great to pay for inner peace.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
Words of Wisdom (2010)
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.
1900s
“Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.”
James Agate (1877–1947) British diarist and critic
Ego, p. 276, March 10, 1933.
“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
al'Lan Mandragoran
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World