Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884), abolitionist, orator and columnist for The Liberator
in a speech before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society in 1852, according to The Dictionary of Quotations edited by Bergen Evans
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)