Klarinet Archive - Posting 000452.txt from 2001/09

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Peace
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:04:29 -0400

<><> Walter Grabner wrote:
Who was it that said, "The price of peace is eternal vigilance"?

Okay, since clarinet discussion is dead for the moment.....

Thomas Jefferson is often given credit, but Bartlett's Quotations gives
credit to an Irish judge and parliamentary orator who was Jefferson's
contemporary:

"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 Curran, 1790 during a speech about electing the mayor of
Dublin

It was also said more recently:

"With a great price our ancestors obtained this freedom, but we were
born free ..... but that freedom can be retained only by the eternal
vigilance which has always been its price.

--- Elmer Davis, 1954

Davis also said (in 1953): "The republic was not established by cowards,
and cowards will not preserve it."

To the best of my knowledge, neither of these gentlemen played basset
horn or clarinet.

Cheers,
Bill

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