Vigilance Quotes

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

Liberty, Sometimes, Price

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

Life, Woman, Nothing

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Desmond Tutu

Freedom, Price, Eternal

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Doubt, Become, Dangerous

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

Good, Men, Struggle

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

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, Lose

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

Democracy, Means, State

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

Power, Liberty, Few

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
Jimmy Wales

While, Direction, Pressure

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

Struggle, Sacrifice, Last

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, Enemy, Important

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

Work, Hard, Sacrifice

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

Fire, Pretty, Rather

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

Nothing, Reputation, Police

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.
Chris Bell

Freedom, Keep, Eye

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
John Philpot Curran

God, Liberty, Eternal

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

God, Here, Judgement

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

Time, Great, End

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