Quote of the day

As to liberty, the heroes who signed the great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is the least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

It's from the class discussion in History and Moral Philosophy. Kevin excerpted it here. I got there after reading this post. I think it's time to pull out my copy of the novel for another reading.