Vigilance Quotes

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. (Thomas Jefferson)
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. View quote
Wendell Phillips
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
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. View quote
Leonard Boswell
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)
Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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. View quote
Andrew Jackson
As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace should not slacken, and concern for the strengthening of cooperation between the peace-loving powers will continue to be our most important duty. View quote
Vyacheslav Molotov
The price of peace is eternal vigilance. View quote
George C. Marshall
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. View quote
Italo Calvino
Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. View quote
Irvine Welsh
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge. View quote
George Santayana
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises. View quote
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
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. (Robert Silverberg)
The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. View quote
Joshua Slocum
Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense. View quote
Gregory Maguire
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. View quote
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet