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• Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. -- Poor Richard
• I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
  -- Cicero Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. -- Poor Richard...
• 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!...
• You know when the price of winning is too high.
• Old age is too high a price to pay for maturity.
• It is tempting to take the easy political path ... to get peace at any price now, even though I know that a peace of humiliation for the United States would lead to a bigger war or surrender later.
  -- Richard M. Nixon, April 30, 1970...
• When you buy peace at any price it is always on the installment plan for another war.
  -- Richard M. Nixon, January 29, 1966...
• You are reaching maturity when the morning after is too high a price to pay for the night before.
• You may give a man an office, but you cannot give him discretion. -- Poor Richard