John Philpot Curran in a speech upon the Right of Election in 1790 (published in a book titled "SPeeches on the late very interesting State trials" in 1808). He said: "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. 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."