Semper pluris feci ego
potioremque habui libertatem [multo] quam pecuniam.
I have always valued and preferred my liberty far beyond money.
Gnaeus Naevius (c. 270 – c. 201 BC), translated by W. F. H. King, Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2388.
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The joke in-progress is to be on the younger of those who think that they can trade liberty — theirs and ours — for material comfort.