“55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.”
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“Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.”
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American novelist 1948Related quotes
“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”
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Chap 11.
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“Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.”
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Variant translation: Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.
Expeditions of an Untimely Man, 38
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
Context: My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. I give an example. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. One knows, indeed, what their ways bring: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic [genüsslich] — every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization...
Source: Blue Ocean Strategy, 2005, p. 17-18 (2016 extended edition)
John Quincy Adams
(1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Attributed in The Rebirth of a Nation : With a Bill of Rights for America's Third Century (1978) by Robert S. Minor, p. 10; this is a paraphrase of a statement by his father John Adams in a letter to his mother Abigail Adams (27 April 1777): "Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it".
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