The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

War is the province of danger.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.