I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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.
It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.
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.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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.
Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'
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."
Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.