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"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." -unknown.
by zizee 14y ago
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." -unknown.
- harshreality 14y agoThat's a slightly modified form of the "eternal vigilance" quote by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philpot_Curran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philpot_Curran
- zizee 14y agoa slightly modified form More like a TL;DR version of it :-) The full quote from John Philpot Curran is: It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. 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. The new (shortened) "version" is somewhat more pithy, and far more easy to distribute. So maybe someone other that Curran deserves some of the credit. I wrote "unknown" as the quote is often mis/attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but the evidence is not strong here.