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The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught. (Quote by - Patrick J. Buchanan)

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

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. (Quote by - Michael Novak)

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)

There is no Freedom without Courage. (Quote by - Eric Schaub)

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

We built your fort. We will not have it used against us. (Quote by - John Wayne)

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant. (Quote by - Ralph L. Woods)

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. (Quote by - Leonard Boswell)

The aim of art, the aim of a life, can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)

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. (Quote by - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet)

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. (Quote by - John Philpot Curran)

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)

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. (Quote by - J. Reuben Clark)

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. (Quote by - George Washington)

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. (Quote by - Justice William O. Douglas)

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

As Hitler showed us, a press suppressed does not make a recovery. As Lenin indicated, a press controlled does not revert to a criti s role. As history reminds us, free speech surrendered is rarely recovered. (Quote by - William J. Small)

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. (Quote by - Samuel Richardson)

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course. (Quote by - Cornelius Tacitus)

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. (Quote by - Buddha)

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

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