Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

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.

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.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

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.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

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.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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

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.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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 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.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.