cost quotes

The greatest cost, namely time.

-Antiphon   5c
Quoted in Plutarch  Antonius, 28.

   Nay: but Iwill surely buy it oftheeat a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which dost cost me nothing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 24:24.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke14:28.

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery† Our cause is just, our union is perfect.

-John Dickinson
  Declaration of reasons for taking up arms against Britain, 8  Jul, presented to Congress. Quoted in C  J Stille The Life and Times of John Dickinson (1891), ch.5.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
   Address to the nation, 22 Oct.

Any time you see him he isgenerally by himself because being by himself is not apt to cost him anything.

- (Alfred) Damon Runyon
  Blue Plate Special,'Little Miss Marker'.

   'Would you just as soon get off the earth?' holding ourselves aloof in pride of distinction saying to ourselves this costs us nothing as though hate has no cost as though hate ever grewanything worth growing.

- Carl Sandburg
  On'the red men'.The People,Yes.

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to impose the views of the revolutionists on the British government and large sections of the colonial populationat whatevercosttofreedomofopinionor the sanctity of life and property.

- Arthur Meier Schlesinger
  'TheAmerican Revolution Reconsidered', in Political Science Quarterly, Mar.