A Quote by George Orwell

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

George Orwell

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George Orwell
British - Novelist
June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

Michael Shermer

The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we have inherited from our fathers only by winning new ones to bequeath our children.

Henry Demarest Lloyd

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

Alex Tabarrok

Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.

Kiran Bedi

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

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.

Andrew Jackson

Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'

Tom Tancredo

Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."