What exactly does "freedom isn't free" mean these days?

One word..."taxes."

I dont' get that saying either. Does it mean we have to go to some foreign country and remodel it? Or does it mean we need to kill people? I dont' get it. Freedom I think is granted to me from my Father up in heaven and he doesn't charge me a dime. My freedom IS free!!!!!!!

I understand that I myself have not been in the armed forces, but that doesn't mean I don't pay in my own way. My father fought in Vietnam, my grandfather fought in World War II and the Korean War. My son wants to join the military when he graduates high school and college. These are my sacrifices to freedom, but there are wives, children, grandchildren, parents and friends who make this sacrifice on a daily basis. We have to live without these people when they aren't home, which leaves a hole in our family until they return, and if they don't return, then the hole is permanent. Our taxes may not being paying for it now, but they will in the future. The price that is paid is not tangible, but it is paid all the same.

FREEDOM ISN'T FREE: it means that in order to get freedom, and to keep it in the country, we have to pay a certain amount of something- whether that is money, friendship, credability- we all have to pitch in together to battle against our enemies and to keep our country a free country.

freedom isn't free to those there, or those left behind. Wars are paid for in blood and tears of the ones fighting and the ones waiting. what about the gas prices? how about the huge amounts of humanitarian aid that we send to rebuild the country we are currently bombing? We didn't want to pay Korea money anymore, and they ended up starting the draft. Freedom isn't free is an easier statement to make than to go into details of why it is true.

Freedom isn't Free because there are people spilling their Blood so that you have the right to ask this question.

Thomas Jefferson once said: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Freedom isn't free. If we expect to keep all the freedoms afforded to us by the U.S. Constitution, we must: 1. Participate in the political process so as not to allow it to decay from exploitation by crooked and corrupt politicians; 2. FIGHT - if necessary - to defeat a tyrannical and oppressive government (such as the one in power right now); 3. Remain vigilant in retaining our freedoms through the voting process and involvement in everything from our local City Councils to our national elections. -RKO-

That has been the mantra for a while for those who want to justify war. It means that there is a price(usually blood by the troops) for freedom when actually it is free. The human race is still evolving to understand that. Peace.

... it's just something that they say to try to make those who don't support the war seem "un-American"... it's usually something like "freedom isn't free... most liberals don't understand that"... yet they usually say this in between giving up their freedoms of privacy to the government willingly... which is horribly ironic... it's true, but most often used as rhetoric by people who truly don't understand it...