Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty (Quotation) - Revision history

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	'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1809 (in the form above)<ref>Thomas U. P. Charlton, ''The Life of Major General James Jackson'' (Augusta, Ga.: Randolph & Co., 1809), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cEcSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85 85.</ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrases, "eternal vigilance" and "price of liberty": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, America's Historical Imprints, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, 19th Century UK Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.</ref>		'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1809 (in the form above)<ref>Thomas U. P. Charlton, ''The Life of Major General James Jackson'' (Augusta, Ga.: Randolph & Co., 1809), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cEcSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85 85.</ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrases, "eternal vigilance" and "price of liberty": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, America's Historical Imprints, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, 19th Century UK Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.</ref>

-	'''Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson:''' 1859: "'The price of liberty is eternal vigilance,' says Jefferson..."<ref>"Southern Commercial Convention," Macon (Ga.) ''Weekly Telegraph'', May 17, 1859, p. 2.</ref>	+	'''Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson:''' 1838: "...in the language of Jefferson, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty'..."<ref>"The Union," ''Pennsylvania Inquirer and Daily Courier'', January 4, 1838, Issue 4, column B.</ref>

	'''Other attributions:''' Patrick Henry, Junius		'''Other attributions:''' Patrick Henry, Junius
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	'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" or any of its variants.		'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" or any of its variants.

-	'''Comments:''' This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass, James Buchanan, and William Henry Harrison. It is most often traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "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."<ref>See Suzy Platt, ed., ''Respectfully Quoted'' (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993), [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA225 200].</ref> While the form in question, "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," is most often attributed to Wendell Phillips<ref>Ibid., [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA230 205].</ref>, this form is in fact far older. The earliest appearance in print that we have been able to locate is 1800, and it is clear that this source is quoting yet an earlier (unnamed) source. Several nineteenth-century sources claim that this was a quotation from Junius, an anonymous political writer who wrote a series of letters to the London ''Public Advertiser'' between 1769 and 1772, but we have not found this exact statement in his writings, either.	+	'''Comments:''' This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass, James Buchanan, and William Henry Harrison. It is most often traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "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."<ref>See Suzy Platt, ed., ''Respectfully Quoted'' (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993), [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA225 200].</ref> While the form in question, "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," is most often attributed to Wendell Phillips<ref>Ibid., [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA230 205].</ref>, this form is in fact far older. The earliest appearance in print that we have been able to locate is 1809, and it is clear that this source is quoting yet an earlier (unnamed) source. Several nineteenth-century sources claim that this was a quotation from Junius, an anonymous political writer who wrote a series of letters to the London ''Public Advertiser'' between 1769 and 1772, but we have not found this exact statement in his writings, either.

	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==

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	'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1809 (in the form above)<ref>Thomas U. P. Charlton, ''The Life of Major General James Jackson'' (Augusta, Ga.: Randolph & Co., 1809), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cEcSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85 85.</ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrases, "eternal vigilance" and "price of liberty": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, America's Historical Imprints, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, 19th Century UK Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.</ref>		'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1809 (in the form above)<ref>Thomas U. P. Charlton, ''The Life of Major General James Jackson'' (Augusta, Ga.: Randolph & Co., 1809), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cEcSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85 85.</ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrases, "eternal vigilance" and "price of liberty": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, America's Historical Imprints, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, 19th Century UK Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.</ref>

-	'''Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson:''' 1888<ref>A Friend of Temperance, ''"Non-partisanship;" or, "Do not take temperance into politics"'' (Philadelphia: Dunlap & Clarke, 1888), [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ep4uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124 124].</ref>	+	'''Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson:''' 1859: "'The price of liberty is eternal vigilance,' says Jefferson..."<ref>"Southern Commercial Convention," Macon (Ga.) ''Weekly Telegraph'', May 17, 1859, p. 2.</ref>

	'''Other attributions:''' Patrick Henry, Junius		'''Other attributions:''' Patrick Henry, Junius

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	#Thomas Jefferson Retirement Papers		#Thomas Jefferson Retirement Papers

-	'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1800 (in the form above)<ref>x</ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrases, "eternal vigilance" and "price of liberty": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera Series I, Early American Imprints Series I and II, Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, JSTOR.</ref>	+	'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1809 (in the form above)<ref>Thomas U. P. Charlton, ''The Life of Major General James Jackson'' (Augusta, Ga.: Randolph & Co., 1809), [http://books.google.com/books?id=cEcSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85 85.</ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrases, "eternal vigilance" and "price of liberty": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, America's Historical Imprints, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, 19th Century UK Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.</ref>

	'''Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson:''' 1888<ref>A Friend of Temperance, ''"Non-partisanship;" or, "Do not take temperance into politics"'' (Philadelphia: Dunlap & Clarke, 1888), [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ep4uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124 124].</ref>		'''Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson:''' 1888<ref>A Friend of Temperance, ''"Non-partisanship;" or, "Do not take temperance into politics"'' (Philadelphia: Dunlap & Clarke, 1888), [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ep4uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124 124].</ref>
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	'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" or any of its variants.		'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" or any of its variants.

-	'''Comments:''' This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass and James Buchanan. It is most often traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "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."<ref>See Suzy Platt, ed., ''Respectfully Quoted'' (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993), [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA225 200].</ref> While the form in question, "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," is most often attributed to Wendell Phillips<ref>Ibid., [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA230 205].</ref>, this form is in fact far older. The earliest appearance in print that we have been able to locate is 1800, and it is clear that this source is quoting yet an earlier (unnamed) source.	+	'''Comments:''' This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass, James Buchanan, and William Henry Harrison. It is most often traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "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."<ref>See Suzy Platt, ed., ''Respectfully Quoted'' (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993), [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA225 200].</ref> While the form in question, "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," is most often attributed to Wendell Phillips<ref>Ibid., [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA230 205].</ref>, this form is in fact far older. The earliest appearance in print that we have been able to locate is 1800, and it is clear that this source is quoting yet an earlier (unnamed) source. Several nineteenth-century sources claim that this was a quotation from Junius, an anonymous political writer who wrote a series of letters to the London ''Public Advertiser'' between 1769 and 1772, but we have not found this exact statement in his writings, either.
		+
	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==
	<references/>		<references/>
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-	==See Also==
-	*[[Quotations on Education]]
-
-	==Further Sources==
-	*UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive: Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government. "The Safest Depository." http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0350.htm

	[[Category:Spurious Quotations]]		[[Category:Spurious Quotations]]

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	'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" or any of its variants.		'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" or any of its variants.

-	'''Comments:''' This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass and James Buchanan. It is most often traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "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."<ref>See Suzy Platt, ed., ''Respectfully Quoted'' (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993), [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA225 200].</ref>	+	'''Comments:''' This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass and James Buchanan. It is most often traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "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."<ref>See Suzy Platt, ed., ''Respectfully Quoted'' (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993), [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA225 200].</ref> While the form in question, "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," is most often attributed to Wendell Phillips<ref>Ibid., [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA230 205].</ref>, this form is in fact far older. The earliest appearance in print that we have been able to locate is 1800, and it is clear that this source is quoting yet an earlier (unnamed) source.
	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==
	<references/>		<references/>

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	'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" or any of its variants.		'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" or any of its variants.

-	'''Comments:''' This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass and James Buchanan. It is most often traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "	+	'''Comments:''' This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass and James Buchanan. It is most often traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "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."<ref>See Suzy Platt, ed., ''Respectfully Quoted'' (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993), [http://books.google.com/books?id=2Tu3bScwKKAC&pg=PA225 200].</ref>
	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==
	<references/>		<references/>

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-	'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1800 (in the form above)<ref></ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrases, "eternal vigilance" and "price of liberty": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera Series I, Early American Imprints Series I and II, Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, JSTOR.</ref>	+	'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1800 (in the form above)<ref>x</ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrases, "eternal vigilance" and "price of liberty": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera Series I, Early American Imprints Series I and II, Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, JSTOR.</ref>

	'''Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson:''' 1888<ref>A Friend of Temperance, ''"Non-partisanship;" or, "Do not take temperance into politics"'' (Philadelphia: Dunlap & Clarke, 1888), [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ep4uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124 124].</ref>		'''Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson:''' 1888<ref>A Friend of Temperance, ''"Non-partisanship;" or, "Do not take temperance into politics"'' (Philadelphia: Dunlap & Clarke, 1888), [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ep4uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124 124].</ref>
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	'''Other attributions:''' Patrick Henry, Junius		'''Other attributions:''' Patrick Henry, Junius

-	'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."	+	'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" or any of its variants.
-		+
-	'''Comments:''' This quotation may well have originated in Ronald Reagan's statement for National Library Week in 1981, in which he said, "If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, as Jefferson cautioned, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." Reagan does not specifically attribute this wording to Jefferson, so we believe that Reagan's paraphrase has become mistaken for Jefferson's exact words.	+

		+	'''Comments:''' This quotation was well-known in the nineteenth century, and was in fact used by a number of famous figures, including Frederick Douglass and James Buchanan. It is most often traced back, ultimately, to John Philpot Curran's statement, "
	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==
	<references/>		<references/>

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-	'''Sources consulted:''' (searching on the phrase "eternal vigilance"	+	'''Sources consulted:''' (searching on the phrase "eternal vigilance")
	#Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition		#Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition
-	#Ford Edition	+	#[http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1734 Ford's ''Works of Thomas Jefferson'']
-	#Lipscomb-Bergh edition (via Google Books)	+	#Lipscomb-Bergh Edition (via Google Books)
		+	#[http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/texts/ UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive]: Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson from the Modern English Collection
		+	#Thomas Jefferson Retirement Papers
		+
		+	'''Earliest known appearance in print:''' 1800 (in the form above)<ref></ref><ref>To establish the earliest appearance of this phrase in print, the following sources were searched for the phrases, "eternal vigilance" and "price of liberty": Google Books, Google Scholar, Amazon.com, Internet Archive, America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera Series I, Early American Imprints Series I and II, Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, American Periodicals Series Online, JSTOR.</ref>
		+
		+	'''Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Jefferson:''' 1888<ref>A Friend of Temperance, ''"Non-partisanship;" or, "Do not take temperance into politics"'' (Philadelphia: Dunlap & Clarke, 1888), [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ep4uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124 124].</ref>
		+
		+	'''Other attributions:''' Patrick Henry, Junius
		+
		+	'''Status:''' We currently have no evidence to confirm that [[Thomas Jefferson]] ever said or wrote, "If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."
		+
		+	'''Comments:''' This quotation may well have originated in Ronald Reagan's statement for National Library Week in 1981, in which he said, "If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, as Jefferson cautioned, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." Reagan does not specifically attribute this wording to Jefferson, so we believe that Reagan's paraphrase has become mistaken for Jefferson's exact words.
		+
		+	==Footnotes==
		+	<references/>
		+
		+	==See Also==
		+	*[[Quotations on Education]]
		+
		+	==Further Sources==
		+	*UVA EText Jefferson Digital Archive: Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government. "The Safest Depository." http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0350.htm

	[[Category:Spurious Quotations]]		[[Category:Spurious Quotations]]

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'''Quotation:''' "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

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#"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

'''Sources consulted:''' (searching on the phrase "eternal vigilance"
#Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition
#Ford Edition
#Lipscomb-Bergh edition (via Google Books)

[[Category:Spurious Quotations]]