Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.
Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
Virginia's Ratification convention, 1788
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884), abolitionist, orator and columnist for The Liberator