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.

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.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

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

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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

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

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

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.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

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.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of 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.

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.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

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

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

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.

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.

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

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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

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.

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

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.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

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

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

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.

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.

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

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

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.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

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.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

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.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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

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

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

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.

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