Vigilance Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Nursing, Sight, Smell

  "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

  Joshua Slocum

  Police, World, Reputation

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.168, Applewood Books

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• 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

  Power, Worst Nightmares, People

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• I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Religious, Men

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• 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

  Horse, Loss, Fire

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1840). “Georgia scenes: characters, incidents, in the first half century of the republic”, p.24

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Law Courts, Government, Libertarian Party

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Blood, Constant

  William Jennings Bryan (1917). “Heart to Heart Appeals”

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• 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

  Blessing, Effort, Trust In God

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Remember, Tyranny, Eternal

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.332, Granta Books

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• You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. 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

  Integrity, Patriotic, Heart

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• 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

  Revenge, Soul, Longing

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• 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

  Freedom, War, Libertarian Party

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• Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.

  John Stossel

  Government, Law, Regulation

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• 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

  Jealous, Justice, Maintaining

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• 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

  Two, Tennis, Three

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• Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.

  Walter Hilton

  Spiritual, Humility, Reality

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• One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Baby, Children, Mean

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• Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Integrity, Intellectual, Add

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

  Miranda July

  Constant, Persons, My Own

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

  Jiang Zemin

  Army, Play, People

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• In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

  Tacitus

  Struggle, Power, Politics

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, II. 74,

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• I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything that lives is holy and somehow integrated; and on cloudy days I suspect that these extraordinary phenomena, and the hundreds of tiny, modest versions no one hears about, are an ocean, an earth, a Creator, something shaking us by the collar, demanding our attention, our fear, our vigilance, our respect, our help.

  Tim Winton

  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Eye, Player, Liberty

  Interview with Joe Hyams, reprints.longform.org. February 1963.

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• The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cost, Eternal, Eternal Vigilance

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• 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

  Waiting, Age, Pearls

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