vigilance quotes

The condition 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.

-John Philpot Curran
  Speech, Dublin,10  Jul.

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

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.4.