Eternal vigilance Quote by Timothy Snyder

“Does the history of tyranny apply to the United States? Certainly the early Americans who spoke of “eternal vigilance” would have thought so. The…

— Timothy Snyder

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

— Samuel Johnson

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

— William Carlos Williams

Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon…

— Ilana Mercer

Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only…

— Thomas Szasz

“But perhaps we see a different set of sins in our own time: a reluctance to take on any new Great National Projects, a…

— Joel Achenbach

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

— Martha Gellhorn

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see…

— Timothy Snyder

“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t Happen Here…

— Timothy Snyder

“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of…

— Timothy Snyder

“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order…

— Timothy Snyder