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
There is scarcely a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the people's money, then all their lands and then make them and their children servants forever.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)