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.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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.
To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.
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. "
The price of peace is eternal vigilance
The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
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.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.
The unvarnished truth is that a trained dog is a perishable commodity. Few things are so subject to deterioration. It is almost as hard-and it takes almost as good a hunter-to keep a dog good as to make one as good. Eternal vigilance is the price of a good bird dog, regardless of who you are, or where and how virtuously you live.
The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.
Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be.
Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
