Even a paranoid can have enemies.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

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.

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.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don’t know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they’re developing what’s called ‚nuclear capability,‘ which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That’s not a crime.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, ‚Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?‘ And it’s like, yeah, honey, they do.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

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.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be 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.

I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

Trust, but verify.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

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.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

When in doubt, don’t.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Let no such man be trusted.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.