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  • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Desmond Tutu
  • Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. -- Wendell Phillips
  • I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. -- George Orwell
  • But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. -- Antonio Tabucchi
  • There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. -- Samuel Johnson
  • 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. -- Leonard Boswell
  • Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success -- Austin Phelps
  • 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. -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
  • Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge. -- George Santayana
  • The price of peace is eternal vigilance -- George C. Marshall
  • I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? -- Josh Billings
  • The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. -- John Philpot Curran
  • Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. -- Samuel Richardson
  • But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. -- Andrew Jackson
  • 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. -- Catherine McAuley
  • Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency. -- James Bovard
  • 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. -- Ken Livingstone
  • It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. -- John Philpot Curran
  • We must have a government which is not only a guarantor of public order and safety and which preserves the right of White citizens to keep and to bear arms, which is the ancient hallmark of a truly free people, but we must have government which maintains an eternal vigilance against the enemies, both internal and external, of a White America. -- George Lincoln Rockwell
  • Vigilance enables wisdom and is the key to freewill -- Michael J Cooper
  • Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. -- Pearl S. Buck
  • Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. -- Joshua Slocum
  • 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. -- Chris Bell
  • While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments. -- Jimmy Wales
  • 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. -- Paul Cellucci
  • People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else. -- Norman Finkelstein
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  • 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. -- Michael Novak
  • And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy. -- Janet Napolitano
  • The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance. -- Venus Williams
  • Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen. -- Steven Amsterdam
  • The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people. -- Jimmy Reid
  • The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country. -- Eugene Jarecki
  • 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. -- J. Reuben Clark
  • The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. -- Haile Selassie
  • To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. -- John Philpot Curran
  • The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance -- Thomas Jefferson
  • The price of eternal vigilance is indifference. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance. -- Arturo Rosenblueth
  • The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Eternal vigilance is the price of sexual confidence. -- Lionel Tiger
  • Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be. -- Dana Gould
  • Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty. -- Alex Tabarrok
  • The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance. -- Thucydides
  • The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something. -- Jon Stewart
  • Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation. -- Mark Twain
  • The hardship, the fighting against vigilance should stop, and terrorism should be fought decisively. -- Alexis Tsipras
  • For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death. -- Robert Penn Warren
  • The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance. -- A. B. Simpson
  • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense. -- George P. Shultz
  • Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance. -- William Jennings Bryan
  • Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime. -- Jennifer Lee
  • It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them. -- Miranda July
  • Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance. -- Martha Gellhorn
  • To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. -- Samuel Johnson
  • The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions. -- Jiang Zemin
  • An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel. -- Sallust
  • Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. -- Irvine Welsh
  • Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward. -- Lewis Howard Latimer
  • The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity. -- Anthony Foxx
  • The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace. -- James A. Forbes
  • In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises. -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
  • Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out. -- Libba Bray
  • I've seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities. -- Garry Kasparov
  • Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech. -- Michael Shermer
  • Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation -- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
  • Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother. -- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  • Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • ... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone. -- Anna Akhmatova
  • The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create. -- Thomas Cole
  • While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts. -- Marvin J. Ashton
  • We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack. -- Fred Thompson
  • ... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Frank Sinatra
  • He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.... -- J. K. Rowling
  • It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors. -- Ismail Kadare
  • Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief. -- Jesse Ventura
  • Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories. -- Shantideva
  • The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance. -- John Reid
  • It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline. -- Julia Cameron
  • Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary. -- Jack H. Goaslind
  • Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. -- Samuel Johnson
  • It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle. -- Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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