“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.”
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Robert A. Heinlein 557
American science fiction author 1907–1988Related quotes
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Context: If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.
“Pryn felt the reckless freedom of assertion.”
Source: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 11, “Of Family Gatherings, Grammatology, More Models, and More Mysteries” (p. 330)
“Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
“Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything”
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.”
Telegram to AFL president Samuel Gompers (14 September 1919); concerning the 1919 Boston Police strike.
1910s, Telegram to Samuel Gompers (1919)
“Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934