Michael Novak Quotes

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.

… the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.

Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.

It's kind of like, I'm just a guard.

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

I can see every monster as they come in.

We continue to be vigilant.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

A fortress is only as safe as the men who guard it.