Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 85 Vigilance quotesVigilance QuotesVigilance Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.~ Plutarch If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.~ Ronald Reagan As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds Blind submission to the Administration of the government is not devotion to the country or the Constitution. The administration is not the government.~ Edward G. Ryan I cannot free another, and no one can free me. Freedom is acquired with the responsibility that sustains it.~ Eric Schaub The process of liberation is continuous.~ Eric Schaub There is no Freedom without Courage.~ Eric Schaub Growth is slow but collapse is rapid.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca As Hitler showed us, a press suppressed does not make a recovery. As Lenin indicated, a press controlled does not revert to a critic’s role. As history reminds us, free speech surrendered is rarely recovered.~ William J. Small The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.~ Adam Smith In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.~ Cornelius Tacitus It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.~ Dorothy Thompson The Radical creed, as I understand it, is this: We have not abandoned our old belief in liberty, justice, and Self-help, but we say that under certain conditions the people cannot help themselves, and that then they should be helped by the State representing directly the whole people. In giving this State help, we make three conditions: first, the matter must be one of primary social importance; next, it must be proved to be practicable; thirdly, the State interference must not diminish self-reliance. Even if the chance should arise of removing a great social evil, nothing must be done to weaken those habits of individual self-reliance and voluntary association which have built up the greatness of the English people.~ Arnold J. Toynbee To a reluctant admission of the necessity for State action, we join a burning belief in duty, and a deep spiritual ideal of life. And we have more than an abstract belief in duty, we do not hesitate to unite the advocacy of social reform with an appeal to the various classes who compose society to perform those duties without which all social reform must be merely delusive.~ Arnold J. Toynbee We differ from Tory Socialism in so far as we are in favour, not of paternal, but of fraternal government, and we differ from Continental Socialism because we accept the principle of private property, and repudiate confiscation and violence. With Mazzini, we say the worst feature in Continental Socialism is its materialism. It is this indeed which utterly separates English Radical Socialists from Continental Socialists — our abhorrence and detestation of their materialistic ideal.~ Arnold J. Toynbee My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.~ Mark Twain Mind Your Business~ U. S. Treasury The difference between [people who take civil liberties seriously] and others ... is that such serious people begin with a constitutional understanding that declines to trivialize the Second Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, just as they likewise decline to trivialize any other right expressly identified elsewhere in the Bill of Rights. It is difficult to see why they are less than entirely right in this unremarkable view. That it has taken the NRA to speak for them, with respect to the Second Amendment, moreover, is merely interesting -- perhaps far more as a comment on others, however, than on the NRA.~ William Van Alstyne Avoid occasions of expense ... and avoid likewise the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.~ George Washington Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the supineness or venality of their constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to show, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.~ George Washington Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print