Quotes of Vigilance - somelinesforyou

“ Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant. ”

- Ralph L. Woods

“ Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. ”

- Buddha

“ 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

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

- Josh Billings

“ He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ”

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“ As he's getting a second project that he can use for border patrol or port surveillance, in our ports or any other number of shorter missions. ”

- John Craig

“ Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. ”

- Lydia M. Child

“ The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Vigilance is the virtue of vice. ”

- C. J. Weber

“ The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. ”

- John Philpot Curran

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

- George Orwell

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

- Abraham Lincoln

“ 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

“ There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one — an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in… ”

- Toni Morrison

“ Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement — these are the martial virtues which must command success. ”

- Austin Phelps
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