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

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

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

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.

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.

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

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.

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.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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.

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

He that’s secure is not safe.

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

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

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 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.

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

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

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

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.