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Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow. -- Orrin Hatch
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land. -- Henry David Thoreau
Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues. -- Mike Johanns
The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few. -- Russell Pearce
In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments. -- King Albert II
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. -- Colin Powell
At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light. -- Greg Boyle
I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings. -- Leona Lewis
We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime. -- Thomas Menino
I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying. -- Rand Paul
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility. -- Lyn Nofziger
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. -- Gore Vidal
I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth. -- Joe Wilson
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This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally. -- Rob Portman
The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant. -- Christina Romer
That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you. -- Paul Gleason
While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will. -- Bill Shuster
We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder. -- Keith Jarrett
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. -- Patrick Henry
I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans. -- John Roberts
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. -- Robert Byrd
We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future. -- Charlie Dent
Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact. -- David A. Bednar
I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready. -- John Hickenlooper
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don't be afraid to trim your hair even if you're trying to grow it out, don't bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things. -- Julia Jones
A Warrior is always vigilant. -- Paulo Coelho
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts -- Gautama Buddha
Given Ivan's size and power, we must remain vigilant. -- Mike Rogers
I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. -- William Shakespeare
You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive. -- Tift Merritt
You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love. -- Elizabeth of the Trinity
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. -- Charles Dickens
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. -- Desmond Tutu
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. -- Patrick Marber
Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency. -- Jeff Bezos
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality -- Gilles Deleuze
You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity. -- John Mearsheimer
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. -- Douglas MacArthur
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other. -- George Takei
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. -- Patrick Henry
I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant. -- Stephen Colbert
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent. -- Samuel Johnson
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out. -- William Howard Taft
We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues. -- Fabiola Gianotti
We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. -- Donald Trump
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy. -- Gautama Buddha
Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. -- Jennifer Crusie
In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs. -- Ernst Junger
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest. -- Edward Gibbon
You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,. -- Daryl Hall
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant. -- Clint Eastwood
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. -- Marya Mannes
We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior. -- Thomas Sankara
Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety. -- Richard Whately
I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant. -- Steven Millhauser
I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in. -- James Fox
Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water. -- Lisa P. Jackson
Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements -- Richard G. Scott
He gave a wry smile. With all this vigilant vigils on virginity, you would think the country would have controlled its population by now. -- Mallika Nawal
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity. -- Grover Cleveland
The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go under -- Gerald Moor
Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying. -- Robert Pattinson
Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason. -- J. D. Salinger
Let us never stop being vigilant about the Oys which face us. But let us never turn them into our raison d'etre. Let us also celebrate the JOYS. -- Deborah Lipstadt
Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires? -- Alan Keyes
To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. -- bell hooks
Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs. -- Walter Raleigh
A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender. -- Francis Atterbury
Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent. -- Mo Ibrahim
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis. -- Michael Lewis
We do have the nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that's an enforcement consequence, action for action, follow on. We have a plan, we will watch them, we will be vigilant. -- Hillary Clinton
It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining. -- Meghan Daum
The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me. -- George Whitefield
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. -- George F. Kennan
Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk. -- Bev Perdue
With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it. -- Amanda Beard
Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion. -- Liu Bei
I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction. -- David Rakoff
Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough. -- Robert Silverberg
Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any. -- Richard Whately
Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing. -- Gautama Buddha
You have to be really vigilant and appreciative of what you have and not get too excited about anything. But it's important to celebrate what you have and feel proud for a minute. -- Sophia Amoruso
Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world? -- Lauren Groff
My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it. -- Pope Francis
I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about. -- Andrew Motion
Sierra Leone and Liberia must remain vigilant, that if you think somebody is sick with Ebola, you must get help immediately. Otherwise there could be a resurgence of Ebola. So everybody must remain vigilant. -- Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation. -- Barack Obama
Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy ... -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known. -- Aldis Hodge
One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something so integral to human nature require such vigilant legal protection? -- Christopher Ryan
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