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.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

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.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

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

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

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 only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

He that’s secure is not safe.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

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

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

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.

As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

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.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

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

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

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

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

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

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.

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.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

I don’t care about hate and threats from climate crisis deniers. I just ignore them.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

There’s no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.

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

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

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.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

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

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

The honor of a nation is its life.

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

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

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.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.