security quotes

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.

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.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

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.

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.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

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.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

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

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.

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

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

He that’s secure is not safe.

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