John Philpot Curran Quotes

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

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I am responsible only to God and history.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

There is no rest for free peoples; rest is a monarchical idea.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

We have been informed that thou hast forbidden the trading in slaves... This, verily, is what God hath enjoined in this wondrous Revelation. God hath, truly, destined a reward for thee, because of this. He, verily, will pay the doer of good, whether man or woman, his due recompense

I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. Americans have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner -- and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers ... a miracle from God.

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

What I have learned is that freedom is not free.