Even a paranoid can have enemies.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

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

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

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

As soon as there is life there is danger.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

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

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

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

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

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.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

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.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

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.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

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.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.