Carolina QuotesBut 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.
Andrew Jackson Carolinian
Source
Farewell Address, (4 March 1837), recalling what, by then, had reached the status of a proverb.
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- 1837
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