[Citizen Tom Paine]

Rudyard Kipling addressed this question in The Old Question which I will type a few lines.

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -

This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.

Ancients Rights unnoticed as the breath we draw-

Leave to live by no man's leave, underneath the Law-

Lance and torch and tumult, steel and grey-goose wing,

Wrenched it, inch and ell and all, slowly from the King.

Till our fathers 'stablished, after bloody years,

How our King is one with us, first among his peers.

So they bought us freedom-not at little cost-

Wherefore must we watch the King: lest our gain be lost.

The poem goes on but you have the idea. The freedoms that we enjoy today were bought by our fathers and their sons long and long ago.

[MacDorcha]

"The freedoms that we enjoy today were bought by our fathers and their sons long and long ago."

Close:

The freedoms we enjoy now were TAKEN BACK by our fathers and their sons. We didn't "buy it," we took back what belonged to us in the first place.