Robert A. Heinlein. Starship troopers (№ 102573)

There is an old tradition claiming that the most precious thing in life - freedom. It's not true. An absolute lie. Tragic misconception has led to the decline and the death of democracy in the XX century. All lush experiment failed, because people are encouraged to believe: it is enough to vote for something, and they'll get it: Without suffering, sweat and tears. Freedom in itself doesn't mean anything. Because all you have to pay. Even the breath ability we buy the cost of the effort and pain of the first breath.