“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.”— Patrick Henry
“Our challenge is to be right 100 percent of the time. The terrorists only have to be right once.”— John S. Pistole
“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”— John Philpot Curran
“We had to keep a constant state of alert, one needed the reflexes of a fencer, to avoid a blow from a club.”— Witold Pilecki
“I've always been a searcher, you know, a hunter. I'm a hunter, a searcher. I have this thing in me where I always feel like I have to be watching to see what's going to come next.”— Ed Harris
“The veneer of civilization is paper thin. We are its guardians, and we can never rest.”— Tom Lantos