Indolent

"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."
--John Philpot Curran:
Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790. (Speeches. Dublin, 1808)
as quoted in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, NY, 1953, p 167
and also in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Boston, 1968, p 479