Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

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

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

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.

I didn’t want to set up a women’s studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it’s male-dominated.

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

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.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

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

He that’s secure is not safe.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

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

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

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.

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.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

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.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

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

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

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

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

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.

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.

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

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

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.

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

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

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

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

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

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.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

There is always safety in valor.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

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.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

Silence is safer than speech.

I don’t know a country in the world that doesn’t have borders and doesn’t want to know who is coming into their country.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

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

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