"The condition upon which God hath given liberty [from vandalism] to [Wikipedians] is eternal vigilance; which condition if [they] break, servitude is at once the consequence of [their] crime and the punishment of [their] guilt.” - paraphrased from John Philpot Curran.[1]
Notes
edit- ^ A member of the Bar (1831). Speeches of Phillips, Curran, and Grattan, the Celebrated Irish Orators. Philadelphia: Key and Mielke. p. 15.