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PS:  Some relevant quotations on vigilance, liberty – and what you can do:

 

 

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." -- John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790. (Speeches. Dublin, 1808.) as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

 

"The severe lessons of experience will, I doubt not, be sufficient to prevent Congress from again chartering such a [national bank] monopoly, even if the Constitution did not present an insuperable objection to it.  But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.  It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837

 

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), abolitionist, orator and columnist for The Liberator, paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (above) in a speech before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society in 1852, according to The Dictionary of Quotations edited by Bergen

 

"Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government.   If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency." -- James Bovard in Voting is Overrated  [Aluko Note: SUBSTITUE “Nigerians” for “Americans,” and “Abuja” for “Washington”]                                                                                                                                                                           "Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both.  The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass

 

"Still if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -- Winston Churchill.

 

"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic."-- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

 

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.   And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." -- Edward Everett Hale

 

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." -- Edward R. Morrow