Vigilance Quotes

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

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

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.