Security Quotes
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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. (Quote by - James Madison)
With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check. (Quote by - Mike Epps)
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger. (Quote by - William Cowperv
I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb. (Quote by - Shirley MacLaine)
To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill. (Quote by - Joe Baca)
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe. (Quote by - Dan Lipinski)
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. (Quote by - Lord Acton)
For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests. (Quote by - Kit Bond)
There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. (Quote by - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it. (Quote by - Norman Rockwell)
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples. (Quote by - Henry A. Kissinger)
The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers. (Quote by - Barbara Boxer)
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first. (Quote by - Aaron Brown)
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice. (Quote by - John Adams)
We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone. (Quote by - John Abizaid)
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much. (Quote by - Hans Blix)
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. (Quote by - General Douglas MacArthur)
Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti. (Quote by - Thor Heyerdahl)
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (Quote by - John Acton)
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated. (Quote by - Aldrich Ames)
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. (Quote by - Bernadette Devlin)
However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans. (Quote by - Ruben Hinojosa)
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. (Quote by - Muhammad Iqbal)
Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants. (Quote by - James Feni
Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, indefeasible right, to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public Weal. (Quote by - George Mason)
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. (Quote by - Gro Harlem Brundtland)
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security. (Quote by - Brent Scowcroft)
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. (Quote by - Bobby Scott)
To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers. (Quote by - Harold H. Greene)
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime – namely, repressive justice. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. (Quote by - Phyllis Schlafly)
Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger? (Quote by - Sean Hannity)
Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong. (Quote by - John Podesta)
What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts. (Quote by - Pat Robertson)
Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security. (Quote by - J. D. Hayworth)
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (Quote by - William Allen White)
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. (Quote by - Robert Anton Wilson)
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger… Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice. (Quote by - William Allen White)
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. (Quote by - Robert G. Ingersoll)
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. (Quote by - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo)
It is precisely for the protection of the minority that constitutional limitations exist. Majorities need no such protection. They can take care of themselves. (Quote by - Illinois Supreme Court)
But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity. (Quote by - John Abizaid)
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded. (Quote by - Vance Packard)
I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely. (Quote by - Joseph Jackson)
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women. (Quote by - Alva Myrdal)
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death. (Quote by - James F. Byrnes)
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters. (Quote by - Stephen Harper)
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe. (Quote by - Natan Sharansky)
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. (Quote by - Neil A. McDonald)
The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created. (Quote by - Virginia Foxx)
When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. (Quote by - Bill Frist)
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress. (Quote by - Benazir Bhutto)
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to prevailing superstition or taboo. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun. (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. (Quote by - Condoleezza Rice)
Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security. (Quote by - Kit Bond)
Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended. (Quote by - Jim Ryun)
We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards. (Quote by - Ron Lewis)
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which insure success. (Quote by - Robert Rawls)
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual? (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful. (Quote by - Merle Oberon)
Did you ever hear anyone say, That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me. (Quote by - Joseph Henry Jackson)
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution followed the Reichstag fire. (Quote by - Srdja Trifkovic)
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq. (Quote by - Mark Kennedy)
Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that? (Quote by - Rush Limbaugh)
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world. (Quote by - Garet Garrett)
We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)
If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)
The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy. (Quote by - Richard V. Allen)
I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people. (Quote by - Hans Blix)
The concentrating [of powers] in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. (Quote by - James Burgh)
Standing up to a tyrant has always been illegal and dangerous. There is no guarantee but one -- to not live like a slave, nor to die like one. (Quote by - Eric Schaub)
God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face. (Quote by - Madeleine Albright)
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. (Quote by - William Pitt)
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. (Quote by - Margaret Cho)
AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq. (Quote by - Jared Diamond)
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security. (Quote by - Herman Kahn)
Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble. (Quote by - Nancy Pelosi)
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes. (Quote by - Ernest Renan)
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market. (Quote by - Barbara Mikulski)
Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed. (Quote by - James Wilson)
Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him. (Quote by - Ray Manzarek)
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal. (Quote by - Lewis F. Powell)
I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments. (Quote by - Ron Chernow)
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. (Quote by - Karl Popper)
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all. (Quote by - Will Durant)
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management. (Quote by - Kevin Mitnick)
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism. (Quote by - Justice William J. Brennan)
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. (Quote by - Lisa Alther)
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. (Quote by - Dr. Harold W. Dodds)
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war. (Quote by - Condoleezza Rice)
These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports. (Quote by - Bobby Scott)
The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough. (Quote by - Charles Schumer)
But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough. (Quote by - John Abizaid)
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. (Quote by - Fredrich August von Hayek)
The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear. (Quote by - Helen H. Gardner)
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress from those who would challenge oppression by the society and that state, and particularly victimizes minorities. [It] can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech. (Quote by - Feminists Against Censorship)
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. (Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. (Quote by - Epicurus)
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment. (Quote by - Henry Steele Commager)
If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. (Quote by - Mike Nichols)
I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis. (Quote by - John W. Snow)
Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole. (Quote by - John W. Snow)
If you suppose that good intentions justify intruding on the lives and properties of your fellow citizens: Do you appreciate being the target of somebody else's good intentions, or haven't you had that particular dubious pleasure yet? (Quote by - Cat Farmer)
Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality. (Quote by - King Hussein I)
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government. (Quote by - David Boaz)
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. (Quote by - Voltaire)
As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. (Quote by - Drew Carey)
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. (Quote by - Henry Steele Commager)
And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy. (Quote by - Jim Costa)
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. (Quote by - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. (Quote by - Declaration of Independence)
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. (Quote by - Alan Cohen)
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. (Quote by - Ron Chernow)
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential. (Quote by - Aung San Suu Kyi)
Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships. (Quote by - Andrei Sakharov)
What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life. (Quote by - Robert Nisbet)
In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually. (Quote by - Jim Ryun)
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. (Quote by - Karl Jaspers)
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others. (Quote by - Arthur Balfour)
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. (Quote by - Demosthenes)
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators. (Quote by - William Henry Harrison)
A people armed and free forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression. (Quote by - James Madison)
I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way. (Quote by - Christine McVie)
You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that! (Quote by - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. (Quote by - Samuel Adams)
A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided. (Quote by - Ruben Hinojosa)
Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps. (Quote by - Euripides)
The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century. (Quote by - Al Gore)
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. (Quote by - Justice Hugo L. Black)
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. (Quote by - Justice William O. Douglas)
In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security. (Quote by - Solomon Ortiz)
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. (Quote by - A. J. P. Taylor)
Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth. (Quote by - Sanjay Kumar)
We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account. (Quote by - Boris Yeltsin)
I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations. (Quote by - Melissa Bean)
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers – normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security. (Quote by - Ezra Taft Benson)
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations. (Quote by - Cliff Stearns)
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. (Quote by - Anna Quindlen)
We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls. (Quote by - Wayne LaPierre)
In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. (Quote by - Wendell L. Willkie)
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. (Quote by - Demosthenes)
We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources. (Quote by - Bo Bennett)
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security. (Quote by - J. D. Hayworth)
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. (Quote by - William Congreve)
Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... (Quote by - Bill Clinton)
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs. (Quote by - Wayne Allard)
This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security. (Quote by - Virginia Foxx)
We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid. (Quote by - John W. Snow)
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
Distrust and caution are the parents of security. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island. (Quote by - Tim Bishop)
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure. (Quote by - Dan Lipinski)
A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all. (Quote by - Friedrich Durrenmatt)
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. (Quote by - J. Paul Getty)
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. (Quote by - John Cudahy)
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny. (Quote by - Walter E. Williams)
In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. (Quote by - Harold W. Dodds)
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice. (Quote by - Ludwig Quidde)
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. (Quote by - James Madison)
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security. (Quote by - Joe Biden)
The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security. (Quote by - Jon Porter)
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. (Quote by - Jim Ryun)
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life. (Quote by - Byron Dorgan)
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. (Quote by - Carl Schurz)
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. (Quote by - Marge Piercy)
But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country. (Quote by - John Abizaid)
Security has no place in the life of an actress. (Quote by - Claire Bloom)
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it. (Quote by - John Conyers)
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses. (Quote by - Jon Porter)
It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason. (Quote by - Dwight Schultz)
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure. (Quote by - Mark Van Doren)
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. (Quote by - Aung San Suu Kyi)
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? (Quote by - Robert Redford)
The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds. (Quote by - Harold J. Laski)
Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. (Quote by - Carl Levin)
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you. (Quote by - Mae West)
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked. (Quote by - Enya)
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. (Quote by - Natalie Goldberg)
There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11. (Quote by - Bob Graham)
I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun. (Quote by - Willy Russell)
There exists a fear of freedom of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate. (Quote by - James A. C. Brown)
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. (Quote by - William Graham Sumner)
There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime. (Quote by - Condoleezza Rice)
The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. (Quote by - Vivien Leigh)
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. (Quote by - Wentworth Miller)
In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders. (Quote by - Joe Baca)
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security. (Quote by - Cliff Stearns)
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. (Quote by - Lakhdar Brahimi)
But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people. (Quote by - Kevin Mitnick)
The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction. (Quote by - Armstrong Williams)
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad. (Quote by - B. E. Hutchinson)
If none of us ever read a book that was dangerous, had a friend who was different, or joined an organization that advocated change, we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings. (Quote by - John W. Snow)
Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system. (Quote by - Ed Markey)
One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security. (Quote by - Anna Lindh)
We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled. (Quote by - Kenny Loggins)
I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security. (Quote by - Patricia Heaton)
It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school. (Quote by - Joycelyn Elders)
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term. (Quote by - Harry Stack Sullivan)
Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment. (Quote by - Kit Bond)
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part. (Quote by - Jeremy Northam)
One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't. (Quote by - Lyn Nofziger)
We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management. (Quote by - Kevin Mitnick)
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation. (Quote by - John Abizaid)
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to earn a living. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty. (Quote by - Hilaire Belloc)
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. (Quote by - Jack Nicholson)
The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power. (Quote by - Thomas Cooper)
Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers. (Quote by - Ron Lewis)
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. (Quote by - Ann Morrow Lindberg)
One cannot have economic growth without security. (Quote by - John Bruton)
This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do. (Quote by - Solomon Ortiz)
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins. (Quote by - Robert Mugabe)
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs. (Quote by - Jack Welch)
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside. (Quote by - Ingrid Bergman)
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. (Quote by - Giordano Bruno)
The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before. (Quote by - Bobby Scott)
I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems. (Quote by - Donna Shalala)
Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like. (Quote by - Alan Dershowitz)
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents. (Quote by - Carol Moseley Braun)
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice. (Quote by - Fredrich August von Hayek)
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre. (Quote by - David Sarnoff)
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. (Quote by - Sinclair Lewis)
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. (Quote by - Joseph Butler)
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty. (Quote by - Justice William O. Douglas)
All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety. (Quote by - George Mason)
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state; it ought not, therefore, to be restricted in this commonwealth. (Quote by - Massachusetts Declaration of Rights)
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. (Quote by - Demosthenes)
Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission. (Quote by - Doc Hastings)
Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack. (Quote by - Timothy Murphy)
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing. (Quote by - Aaliyah)
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger. (Quote by - Lord Acton)
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. (Quote by - Benjamin Tucker)
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. (Quote by - Eric Clapton)
None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America. (Quote by - Donald Evans)
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation. (Quote by - Mike Fitzpatrick)
For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run. (Quote by - John Sununu)
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. (Quote by - Roger Ebert)
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops. (Quote by - Jim Ryun)
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. (Quote by - Bruce Schneier)
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry? (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. (Quote by - Janet Frame)
The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries. (Quote by - Nancy Pelosi)
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. (Quote by - Muhammad Iqbal)
If you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom. (Quote by - Tom Braun)
Effective security measures do not come cheap. (Quote by - Arlen Specter)
Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed. (Quote by - Sarah Brady)
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. (Quote by - Joseph Rotblat)
There is no such thing as security. There never has been. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. (Quote by - Daniel Yergin)
When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue. (Quote by - Zach Wamp)
Useful, and necessity was always 'the tyrant's plea'. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. (Quote by - William O. Douglas)
Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential. (Quote by - Gijs de Vries)
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts. (Quote by - Bobby Jindal)
I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing. (Quote by - Enya)
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas. (Quote by - George Allen)
We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. (Quote by - Jeffrey Sachs)
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. (Quote by - Barbara Ehrenreich)
According to Gestapo records…they had little need to engage in direct spying on the citizens since the citizens themselves were more than willing to do their spying for them. (Quote by - Kort E. Patterson)
Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen... If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. (Quote by - Justice Louis D. Brandeis)
There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before. (Quote by - Natalie Goldberg)
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men. (Quote by - Justice Louis D. Brandeis)
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. (Quote by - Jiddu Krishnamurti)
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies. (Quote by - Alan Watts)
To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. (Quote by - John Ashcroft)
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. (Quote by - Benazir Bhutto)
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security. (Quote by - Anna Lindh)
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13. (Quote by - Vernon L. Smith)
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security. (Quote by - James Hillman)
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. (Quote by - L. Neil Smith)
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth. (Quote by - Robert Casey)
I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)
There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking. (Quote by - Major Owens)
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. (Quote by - Gijs de Vries)
I think that every true reformer, every real friend of liberty, will agree with me in saying that if we must erect safeguards, they should be rather for the security of the individual than of the mass, and that our chiefest care must be to train the majority to respect the rights of the minority, to prevent the claims of the few from being trampled under foot by the caprice or passion of the many. (Quote by - Sir Richard John Cartwright)
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms. (Quote by - Kevin Mitnick)
It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place. (Quote by - Jeff Miller)
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. (Quote by - Shelley Berman)
I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security. (Quote by - Garry Kasparov)
Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear. (Quote by - Bill Frist)
Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. (Quote by - Thomas Y. Bayard)
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights – which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state. (Quote by - Gerry Spence)
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability. (Quote by - Jim Clyburn)
If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security. (Quote by - Ann Coulter)
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? (Quote by - Rahm Emanuel)
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
What is the fairest fruit of the English Tree of Liberty? The security of our rights and of the law, and that no man shall be brought to trial where there is a prejudice against him. (Quote by - Thomas Erskine)
I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility. (Quote by - Patrick J. Kennedy)
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements. (Quote by - Anna Lindh)
Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed. (Quote by - Recep Tayyip Erdogan)
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. (Quote by - William S. Cohen)
Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands. (Quote by - Osama bin Laden)
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)
For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby. (Quote by - Natalie Wood)
If your library is not ‘unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job. (Quote by - John Berry)
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem. (Quote by - John Doolittle)
The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics. (Quote by - Cat Stevens)
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security. (Quote by - Robert Welch)
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well. (Quote by - Joseph Rotblat)
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. (Quote by - Tahar Ben Jelloun)
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. (Quote by - Thomas Babington)
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged. (Quote by - Maurice Strong)
With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family. (Quote by - Doc Hastings)
Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets. (Quote by - Max Baucus)
Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security. (Quote by - Yitzhak Rabin)
On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. (Quote by - Chaka Fattah)
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. (Quote by - John Locke)
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system. (Quote by - Corrine Brown)
Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost. (Quote by - Paul Bowles)
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. (Quote by - George Orwell)
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
We hear of a silent generation, more concerned with security than integrity, with conforming than performing, with imitating than creating. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watson)
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. (Quote by - Clarence S. Darrow)
We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments. (Quote by - Boris Yeltsin)
I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected. (Quote by - Alice James)
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. (Quote by - Wietse Venema)
We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security. (Quote by - William Cohen)
The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?' (Quote by - Bill Maher)
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances. (Quote by - Ulrich Beck)
I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders. (Quote by - Mahmoud Abbas)
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for. (Quote by - John Milton)
I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies. (Quote by - Condoleezza Rice)
How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens? (Quote by - Phyllis Schlafly)
Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness… This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs, when he first appears he is a protector. (Quote by - Plato)
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)
Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government. (Quote by - John Boehner)
We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program. (Quote by - Dennis Hastert)
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine. (Quote by - Victor Ferkiss)
Security is a kind of death. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. (Quote by - Jim Carrey)
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. (Quote by - Robert Toombs)
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government ... Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
Some informants spied on their neighbors because they actually believed the propaganda… Some denounced their enemies in order to settle personal grudges. Some were driven by their own fears to attempt to deflect attention away from themselves…Some were motivated by the sense of power turning in their neighbors gave them. (Quote by - Kort E. Patterson)
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
