I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost. - Civil War general George McClelland, quoted in Surgeon in Blue
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. - Quintilian
Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight. - William Shakespeare
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. - Alexander Hamilton
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. - Frederick Douglass
When you understand that everything you buy is purchased with a portion of your life, it should make you more careful with the use of money. - James C. Dobson
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry
Human resources could be purchased and sold but not time. - Sunday Adelaja
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. - George Denison Prentice
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, ."He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, . - George Bernard Shaw