A Quote by Chris Bell
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.
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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.
The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.
Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.
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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."
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
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.
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