“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Letter to Major General http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lett-4.htm Joseph Hooker (26 January 1863) <br class="br">1860s

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16th President of the United States 1809–1865

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“The victory over cruelty is never final, but, like the maintenance of freedom, requires eternal vigilance.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

How—and How Not—to Love Mankind http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_3_urbanities-how_and_how_no.html (Summer 2001). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Ignorance is a low-energy state. It takes constant vigilance and work to climb out of it.”

Steven Novella (1964) American neurologist, skepticist

SGU, Podcast #352 – April 14th, 2012 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/352 <br class="br">The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2010s

“Forward, for ever forward! at the end of the tunnel is the light … at the end of the flight is the victory.”

The Mother (1878–1973) spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo

In "Pondicherry"
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“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”

Houari Boumédiène (1932–1978) Huari Bumedien

reportedly during a 1974 speech to the United Nations, as reported by Loonwatch on 25 March 2017 http://www.loonwatch.com/2017/03/25/the-1974-houari-boumedienne-u-n-speech-myth/ <br class="br">Misattributed

“Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory.”

Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart

[...] They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song.
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 17 (p. 139)