"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

[kentuck]

https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/eternal-vigilance-price-liberty-quotation

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Comments: This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass, James Buchanan, and William Henry Harrison. It can be traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."4 Curran was still being directly quoted (more or less accurately) and credited with the quote in American newspapers in the early 19th century, but before long the quote was being used without Curran's name, and was being shortened to its more well-known modern form.5

[Sunny05]

1. K&R. Thank you! nt

[kentuck]

2. I think I can understand that quote a little better now.

The value that was put upon liberty.