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“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.
“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
“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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Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Farewell Address, (4 March 1837), recalling what, by then, had reached the status of a proverb.
1830s
“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)