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Vigilance Quotes
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The general [federal] government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. (Quote by - General Douglas MacArthur)
I cannot free another, and no one can free me. Freedom is acquired with the responsibility that sustains it. (Quote by - Eric Schaub)
I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith... (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks. (Quote by - Chris Bell)
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. (Quote by - Joshua Slocum)
When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible. (Quote by - Ken Livingstone)
I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. (Quote by - George Orwell)
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God. (Quote by - Catherine McAuley)
The master's eye makes the horse fat. (Quote by - Old Latin Saying)
They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business. (Quote by - Buckminster Fuller)
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. (Quote by - Dorothy Thompson)
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men. (Quote by - Plato)
We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games. (Quote by - Lou Erickson)
He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Let it [the Constitution] be taught in schools, seminaries and in colleges; let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, enforced in courts of justice. In short, let it become the political religion of the nation. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The process of liberation is continuous. (Quote by - Eric Schaub)
To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. (Quote by - e. e. cummings)
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (Quote by - George Washington)
The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught. (Quote by - Patrick J. Buchanan)
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it. (Quote by - Michael Novak)
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
There is no Freedom without Courage. (Quote by - Eric Schaub)
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. (Quote by - Antonio Tabucchi)
We built your fort. We will not have it used against us. (Quote by - John Wayne)
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant. (Quote by - Ralph L. Woods)
Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation. (Quote by - Leonard Boswell)
The aim of art, the aim of a life, can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head. (Quote by - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet)
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. (Quote by - John Philpot Curran)
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping. (Quote by - J. Reuben Clark)
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. (Quote by - George Washington)
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. (Quote by - Justice William O. Douglas)
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
As Hitler showed us, a press suppressed does not make a recovery. As Lenin indicated, a press controlled does not revert to a critic's role. As history reminds us, free speech surrendered is rarely recovered. (Quote by - William J. Small)
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. (Quote by - Samuel Richardson)
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course. (Quote by - Cornelius Tacitus)
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. (Quote by - Buddha)
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Blind submission to the Administration of the government is not devotion to the country or the Constitution. The administration is not the government. (Quote by - Edward G. Ryan)
Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. (Quote by - Paul Cellucci)
There is a significant Latin proverb, to wit, Who will guard the guards? (Quote by - Henry Wheeler Shaw)