A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

Thomas Jefferson

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Closed Eye Never Vigilance

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs. Whoever relaxes vigilance will disarm himself politically and land himself in a passive position.

Mao Zedong

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Eckhart Tolle

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Bill Cosby

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.

Chris Bell

Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

Karen Finerman

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

Brandon Mull

The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.

Christophe Agou

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

William Blake

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

Peter DeFazio

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

Haile Selassie

I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.

Kelvin Sampson

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

John Stuart Mill

Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

Marian Wright Edelman

I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.