Quote of the day 13th October 2018

A great many people have made statements along the lines of "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." The phrase is often attributed to Thomas Jefferson but there is no evidence that he ever said it. One of the oldest similar statements whose provenance is definitely confirmed is this line from a 1790 speech by the Irish orator John Philpot Curran:


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