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.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

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.

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

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

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

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

Silence is safer than speech.

You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

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

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.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

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.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

He that’s secure is not safe.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

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.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

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

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

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.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Precaution is better than cure.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.