Quotes About Security

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence

Stability," insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives.

They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

quis custodiet custodes?

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions.

Nu-i mai bine s? r?mîi acas?? S? prinzi r?d?cini? R?d?cinile devin îns? lanÈ›uri.

liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free," said Jefferson, "it expects what never was and never will be. . . . The people cannot be safe without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

It must be pleasant, I should think, to hand oneself over to somebody else. It must give you a warm, splendid, comfortable feeling.

Every change is a menace to stability.

Sólo podéis ser independientes de Dios mientras conservéis la juventud y la prosperidad; la independencia no os llevará a salvo hasta el final.

No deseamos cambios. Todo cambio constituye una amenaza para la estabilidad.

The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back

Only he who has never been in danger is really saved.

We have beams that can make people sick or kill them with microwaves.

To help ensure success, practice defensive money management. A good trader watches his capital as carefully as a professional scuba diver watches his air supply.

The constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Big Lou sighed. "The Devil's just a tattie-bogle. And there's no such place as Hell, Bob." Bob hesitated. "No, I don't think there is. But why did they tell us all that?" "It was a useful threat, Bob. Fear works. It secured compliance.

None of us, she thought, wants the world we know to come to an end; we do not want familiar things to be taken from us.

It would be good if there could be an end to need in this world; it would be good if people did not have to worry about what would happen to them if their crops failed, or if their cattle got sick and died, or if they lost the jobs on which they, along with a number of hungry mouths, depended.