Who said the price of freedom is eternal vigilance

RQ traces the ultimate origins of this quote to a speech by John Philpot Curran, given in Dublin in RQ also provides a cross reference to the first known appearance of the quote in its shorter form , in a speech by abolitionist Wendell Phillips in Lovely as RQ is, it was also published in 2nd ed. Indexes are created by people. And people are, as we all know, people — by which I mean, those indexes are only as good and thorough as the people making them.

Game over. Anyway, my point is that in tracing quotations, you try any way you can to get some kind of access to the publications of the past. Back in , your methods of access were pretty limited indeed, and probably resulted in a very limited glimpse. Like looking through a keyhole. Now we have all these fancy full-text databases, along with Google Books and the Internet Archive. For the record, Mr. Sartell St. Joseph St. Stephen school district St. Cloud school district. Sartell Chamber St. Joseph Chamber.

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