Vigilance Quotes

• When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Peace, Struggle

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• Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

  Mark Twain

  Journey, Effort, Destination

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• Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Democracy, Eternal, Eternal Vigilance

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• Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state”, p.212

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• Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liberty, Eternal Vigilance

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• Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Inspiration

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• No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Freedom, Patriotic

  Title of speech to the people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese constitution. MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks (1965), p. 194. Francis T. Miller, General Douglas MacArthur, Fighter for Freedom, p. 1, 1942.

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• The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Defense, Indifference, Eternal

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Islands

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• Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Sleep, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.250, Рипол Классик

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• But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Mean, Perfection, Democracy

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• The price of peace is eternal vigilance

  George C. Marshall

  Eternal, Eternal Vigilance

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• 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

  Mean, Important, Patterns

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• The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

  Jon Stewart

  Smell, Bullshit, Defence

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• 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

  Believe, Simple, Negativity

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.116, Penguin

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• 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

  Powerful, Mean, Science

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• The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sacrifice, Liberty, World

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

  Winston Churchill

  Stay Strong, Jobs, Long

  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

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• The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Way, Danger

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.235

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• 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

  Men, Attention, Reign

  Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Patrick Riley (1990). “Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

  Josh Billings

  Latin, Significant, Wit

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• An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Citizens, Institutions, Horrible

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Government, Evil, Ends

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.48

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• Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

  George Santayana

  Eternal, Eternal Vigilance

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.537, Indiana University Press

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

  Unknown

  Defense, Price Of Freedom, Eternal

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