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• 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

  Winning, Government, Voting

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• One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the kind of decisive, permanent victories in this fight against terrorism that we would get from fighting another country. We're not going to get that MacArthur/Emperor moment, because by definition, even after decimating Al Qaeda in the Fata, even after taking out [Osama] bin Laden there's still people there who have both the interest and the capacity if we don't maintain vigilance to strike against the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Fighting, Thinking

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• I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Faith Religion

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• We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of freedom.

  Greg Nickels

  Comfort, Needs, Kind

  "Americans urged to enjoy 4th, stay vigilant". www.cnn.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Children, Men, Blood

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• 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

  Country, War, Fighting

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

  Albert Camus

  Integrity, Men, Good Man

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• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Sacrifice, Self

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• 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

  Military, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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• I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Thinking, Liberty

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.50, Jester House Publishing

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• 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

  Patience, Commitment, Play

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• I have sworn upon the altar of god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Faith Religion

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• 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

  Perseverance, Struggle, Sacrifice

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• Government is best which governs least

  Thomas Paine

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

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• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

  Wendell Phillips

  Liberty, Esprit De Corps, Stealing

  Wendell Phillips (1863). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.52

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• 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

  Freedom, Military, Blessing

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.436

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• There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Reason, Passing

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.335

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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

  Long, Liberty, Lasts

  Interview with Peter and Helen Evans, www.orthodoxytoday.org. September 17, 2005.

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• A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

  Samuel Richardson

  Design, Prudent, Appearance

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Responsibility, Fate, Made

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 45), 1955.

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• The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.

  Adam Smith

  People, Watches, Directors

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• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Fear, Hypocrite

  Cakes and Ale (1930) ch. 1

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• It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Liberty, Eternal, Seems

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• 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

  Design, Judgement, Want

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