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More on the "Eternal Vigilence" Quote
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilence"
This popular phrase has been attributed to both Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, but it appears to have been adapted from a statement made by John Philpot Curran, Lord Mayor of Dublin: "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." Speech before the Privy Council, 10 July 1790; in The Speeches of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran, ed. Thomas Davis (1847), pp. 94-95.
In addition to President Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address, March 4, 1837, versions of this quotes were later used by Wendell Phillips, speech in Boston, Massachusetts, 28 January 1852; in Speeches Before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1853), p. 13; as well as Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Proper credit was almost always given to the founding fathers in the later speeches.
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