“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!”

“God Almighty, dear God, good to me, gave me a sweet tongue, and these sad and lonely folk will hear me and they shall be happy.”

“No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.”

“Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this [surrender], but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face — that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand — the ultimatum. And what then? When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he would rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin — just in the face of this enemy?”

“Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.”

“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!”

“Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!”

“Trusting in God is a price to every dear thing and a ladder to every high thing.”

“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
Caritas non potest conparari; dilectio pretium non habet.

“Peace can be find between good and evil. It's not so easy to find that sweet spot!”