Eternal Vigilance Quotes - Page 2

• The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

  Karl Popper

  Heaven, Earth, Hell

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Open Society and its Enemies: Hegel and Marx”, p.252, Routledge

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• I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Faith Religion

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• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Law, Strong Arms

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• Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

  Jennifer Lee

  Cooking, Chinese, Downtime

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• It is not the critic who counts

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Military, Failure

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Freedom, Light, Liberty

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• It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

  John Adams

  Men, Presidential, Weakness

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.36, Penguin

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• I have sworn upon the altar of god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Faith Religion

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Virtue, Used

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• Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Tyrants, Inalienable Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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• God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Second Amendment, Twenties

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.318

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• The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Fighting, Civilization

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• Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liberty, Vigilance

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• If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving Up, People, Promise

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• Government is best which governs least

  Thomas Paine

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

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• The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loss, Trade, Security

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• It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Courage, Badass

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Kuwait, Soldier, Soul

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• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  Plato

  Plato, Freedom, Men

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Government

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Law Courts, Government, Libertarian Party

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Badass, Military

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

  Demosthenes

  Trust, Wise, Tyrants

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• No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Freedom, Patriotic

  Title of speech to the people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese constitution. MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks (1965), p. 194. Francis T. Miller, General Douglas MacArthur, Fighter for Freedom, p. 1, 1942.

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Power, Tyrants

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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